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Fun fact: the direction of the polarization on my phone is the opposite of my computer monitor.

I like to wear sunglasses with adjustable polarization so that I can see a different filter in each eye. The only real advantage is that shiny surfaces look weird as they only reflect the sun in one eye at a time

they should remake Back to the Future and cast Elliot Page as Marty McFly

new post: "be cool, be cyberpunk" -- unpacking a line from @benbrown about owning your data and your devices, and what it means to be a good person while you're at it.

peteftw.com/~pete/2026/05/be-c

Maybe the real "personal data stores" were FTP servers all along.

90s electronic dance music to fix data migration edge cases to. 😎👍

I'm like *this* close to making my own text editor. 🤪

Evil business idea: Easy Leak Fingerprinting. Rearrange some words/sentances in a message before emailing it out to a list to have invisible fingerprints to track down who shared it externally without them being aware. More robust than adding extra metadata to a file.

Wizards With Guns is my current fave comedy group. Followed closely by Aunty Donna. youtube.com/watch?v=JiMpuAc0_N

@theashtonstarr This particular toot was about Borderlands 3, but that too! :P

How are there still Drake glazers after They Not Like Us got blasted globally??

It's hard to be invested in the moral superiority of shooter game protagonists as they commit mass murder on "the bad guys". Like, sure this "devil rider boss" had done some crime, but my "protagonist" character has killed thousands of people compared to robbing a bank or whatever tf the bad guys do.

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out.

404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai

@laprice do let me know if you find something! I've only seen devdocs.io/ which still scrapes MDN IIRC

@laprice Mind elaborating on why you're avoiding using MDN? It's still my go to.

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