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tanjent.bsky.social
Hypercompetent autodidact. Nerd of all things and master of quite a few: gameboy hardware verilog vhdl c++ assembly fpga PCB oscilloscope reverse engineering GPU 3D graphics game engine development
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Big snow.

I continue to believe in my "germ theory" of memetics - some ideas are not merely right or wrong, some are literal plagues.

I saw a Reddit post this morning that was basically "Alt-right cartoonist accidentally makes being trans look cool" and the art style seemed familiar. I looked up the details and it turns out that a webcomic I liked in the 2000s but stopped reading has since gone Stormfront-levels of fascist.

Now this is how you advertise a product: youtu.be/SFsnS0Yb1Bs?...

When you trim your fingernails, do you end up with ten solid crescents of clipped nails or lots of little bits?

Yesterday I found a Bluesky account that appeared to be 100% AI-generated ragebait replies - pretending to be a MAGA when threatening liberals, pretending to be a liberal when threatening MAGAs. Reported it, then sent it a "Are you a real person?" message. Today the account is deleted. Huh.

Possibly stupid question - Can I download the profile blurbs of all 25+ million bluesky users? It wouldn't be that much data and could be interesting to look at.

I can't even think of anything that would be worth me buying during Cyber Monday. A bunch of copper 10gig ethernet stuff to make my network even more massively overkill? *shrug*

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90r...

One million dollars is roughly equal to receiving $30 every single day of your life. That's not a crazy amount of money these days - it might not even cover your rent.

This feed shows only posts from people you follow, without replies or reposts - bsky.app/profile/skyf...

I'm looking for some small projects on Github that have unusual build requirements - ones that do more than "compile source, link binary". Any suggestions? I'll port them to my homebrew build system Hancho - github.com/aappleby/han... - to see how it handles other people's weird projects.

Is a Blue Sky "feed" just a regex applied to the whole post firehose?

Who wants to see my tiny homebrew build system? Cross-project, cross-repo, parallel builds, whole build system is a single Python file. github.com/aappleby/han...

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