Nostr notes by fraggle

looks like chuck tingle has some competition

2026-10-26T20:54:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…wqsu
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looks like chuck tingle has some competition

probably just The Right Thing vs Worse is Better again

2026-10-22T16:19:15Z

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probably just The Right Thing vs Worse is Better again

Chuckling at the idea of all the Gondorian kids going on school ...

2026-10-18T19:19:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…rnxy
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Chuckling at the idea of all the Gondorian kids going on school trips each year to the Museum of the War of the Last Alliance to see the One Ring on display in a bulletproof glass case

See, THIS is what the Internet is supposed to be for ...

2026-10-18T19:14:55Z

See, THIS is what the Internet is supposed to be for

my favorite Piper fact is the devs added deliberate logic to ...

2026-10-13T18:27:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…xd83
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my favorite Piper fact is the devs added deliberate logic to ensure the system never generates any "interesting" changelist numbers (round numbers, digits of pi or e, repeated digits etc etc. they were very thorough). Because internal devs kept writing shell scripts to compete to get changelist #400000000 or whatever, generating hundreds of disposable changelists and overloading the servers the entire workforce depended upon just to get some minor nerd cred

that's nothing, you should hear about google3 and Piper

2026-10-13T18:17:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…aqt0
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that's nothing, you should hear about google3 and Piper

even the most permissive licenses like the BSD or MIT licenses ...

2026-10-08T22:10:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…kx63
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even the most permissive licenses like the BSD or MIT licenses require copyright notices to be kept attached, something I'm pretty certain LLMs do not do

we regret to inform you the encryption keys were stored in the ...

2026-09-25T16:09:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…5vjc
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we regret to inform you the encryption keys were stored in the backup

never forget what they did to tuvix

2026-09-08T16:11:29Z

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never forget what they did to tuvix

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2026-09-07T17:49:44Z

who named it casu marzu and not mag & cheese

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2026-09-02T16:40:41Z

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not committing fully to Maemo was the biggest management blunder ...

2026-08-18T20:41:31Z

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not committing fully to Maemo was the biggest management blunder that ultimately killed Nokia

Github really pushing the limits of "how unusable can we make ...

2026-08-17T15:57:36Z

Github really pushing the limits of "how unusable can we make our product and have people continue to use it?"

for context https://youtu.be/QqotT8iERxk

2026-08-10T11:47:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…uz89
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for context https://youtu.be/QqotT8iERxk

DuckDuckGo is selling "normal fucking sunglasses" and ...

2026-08-06T13:55:28Z

DuckDuckGo is selling "normal fucking sunglasses" and they already sold out https://www.techspot.com/news/113357-duckduckgo-made-sunglasses-do-absolutely-nothing-they-sold.html

I somehow doubt Christine knows what activitypub is

2026-07-28T18:47:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…mv9d
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I somehow doubt Christine knows what activitypub is

sorry my attention span is far too short to read all that, ...

2026-07-28T18:34:50Z

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sorry my attention span is far too short to read all that, I'm going to need someone to generate some kind of slop diagram / political cartoon that can explain it for me

as openings go it's good but no thunderbirds :)

2026-07-24T01:44:48Z

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as openings go it's good but no thunderbirds :)

I thought the Supreme Court shut that whole racket down

2026-07-20T21:42:42Z

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I thought the Supreme Court shut that whole racket down

that's why I have this in my bashrc minfo() { info --subnodes ...

2026-07-04T16:15:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…lyv0
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that's why I have this in my bashrc

minfo() {
info --subnodes -o - "$@" | less
}

The ongoing shitshow of Linux sound APIs: everyone collectively ...

2026-06-15T03:15:34Z

The ongoing shitshow of Linux sound APIs: everyone collectively moved from PulseAudio to Pipewire, which now added a new dependency that brings in 50MB of AI/ML junk.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1130264

sounds like a very fragile system if resources can get orphaned ...

2026-05-02T01:45:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…e974
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sounds like a very fragile system if resources can get orphaned like that

Raymond Chen had a great blog post about not bothering to free memory on program exit as there's no need
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120105-00/?p=8683

The Big Crunch Theory

2026-04-26T19:36:20Z

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The Big Crunch Theory

my personal fear is that we're going to end up seeing a US ...

2026-04-18T17:41:19Z

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my personal fear is that we're going to end up seeing a US Supreme Court ruling that the output of LLM models belongs to the company that trained the model

That's potentially disastrous for open source because suddenly companies like Anthropic and OpenAI would get to retroactively claim copyright over/demand money from any projects that have incorporated code they helped generate

We're not anywhere near that point yet but considering how much they spend on training the models, it's going to be strongly in their interests to lobby for it and pour money into funding lawsuits that would get them that precedent

I still haven't watched Lower Decks even though I'm ...

2026-03-24T20:11:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…dra7
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I still haven't watched Lower Decks even though I'm definitely the target audience. There's something about the concept of a comedy series set in the Star Trek universe that is also canon that I consider distasteful

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2026-03-17T22:17:27Z

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2026-03-17T05:06:23Z

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2026-03-14T04:13:26Z

if Starbucks tried to pay its employees with Starbucks gift cards ...

2026-03-11T13:58:27Z

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if Starbucks tried to pay its employees with Starbucks gift cards they'd be laughed at. AI companies do the same thing and it's for some reason considered an innovative new compensation model

Late to the party here, but "all children around the world ...

2026-02-13T15:51:01Z

Late to the party here, but "all children around the world have suddenly started repeating the same two digit number and nobody knows why or what it means" is definitely a Doctor Who plot

Great to see that "Someone", the world's most ...

2025-10-14T19:41:39Z

Great to see that "Someone", the world's most prolific Doom modder, remains as active as ever

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2025-08-17T01:20:53Z

This seems more relevant than ever https://youtu.be/bc5Nk1DXyEY

2025-07-24T01:36:32Z

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This seems more relevant than ever

https://youtu.be/bc5Nk1DXyEY

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2025-07-22T18:27:50Z

RIP Ozzy Osbourne

Tamagotchis were really popular when I was a kid, and I knew some ...

2025-07-09T17:38:33Z

Tamagotchis were really popular when I was a kid, and I knew some other kids who genuinely seemed to buy in to the idea that they were "real" animals rather than just an electronic toy. Now people like that are all grown up and cheating on their wives with chatbots. Stories like this one remind me that people who don't understand how tech works, can buy into all kinds of nonsense stories about it.

Looks like WadGadget got mentioned in the proceedings for the ...

2025-06-04T19:48:51Z

Looks like WadGadget got mentioned in the proceedings for the recent IWP9 (Plan 9) conference! If you're a fan of both Doom and Plan 9 then maybe check out qwx (npub1esd…v62x)'s wadfs:

https://iwp9.org/11iwp9proceedings.pdf

What's your favourite nuclear reactor, vibrator and washing ...

2025-06-03T05:10:04Z

What's your favourite nuclear reactor, vibrator and washing machine manufacturer? Mine is Hitachi

some further evidence of feline dimensional engineering can be ...

2025-05-16T16:51:29Z

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some further evidence of feline dimensional engineering can be found here
https://www.reddit.com/r/thecatdimension/top/?t=all

is there some context for what you're working towards in this ...

2025-03-01T03:53:30Z

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is there some context for what you're working towards in this project? I'm intrigued but you didn't thread your toots :(

Yep, I had a similar-ish experience with Canonical's broken ...

2025-02-06T18:51:22Z

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Yep, I had a similar-ish experience with Canonical's broken hiring process a couple of years ago when I applied. I have a thread here where I wrote about it at the time:
https://octodon.social/@fraggle/109280048360828159
Includes pseudoscientific "psychometric assessment" test that likely violates disability laws in most countries

Shuttleworth has talked at length about the process on Reddit, making clear that it's very deliberate and not an accident. My conclusion was the same: don't work for Canonical

Greetings from my new home on @npub1yq9…z5wx !

2025-01-26T17:08:59Z

Greetings from my new home on Social.coop (npub1yq9…z5wx) !