&mut selves Qyriad

@Qyriad@provably.online
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Nerdy, quoiromantic, poly, lesbian computer engineers and leftists.

Major fandoms: RWBY, Persona 5, Cosmere

No one must labour to survive. Everyone must own their fruits.

Instance admin, provably.online

pronounsshe/her (singular), they/them (plural)
timedatectl set-timezoneEurope/Amsterdam
more pronounshttps://pronouns.cc/@Qyriad
carbon languagesEN (native), ES (medium), NL (beginner)
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so i found out forgejo also lets you use custom emoji in issue labels  

One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention.

One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.

You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling malware.

You don't get it from a walled garden with commercial incentives to let publishers hurt you.

You don't have to fumble around Google trying to find if the site offering it is reputable.

You get it from a party, usually made up of dedicated volunteers, who believe in the platform and who are vetting all the software they build and package for you. Usually the same one you got your base system from.

When talking about banning "AI" contributions to a project, saying "but you can't detect all of it anyway!" is missing the point. The goal isn't to eradicate every single "AI" contribution with perfect accuracy. The goal is to discourage those who would submit such things - even if they managed to fly under the radar, they still would've had to go through a lot of effort to not get caught, and that is already a win for the project!
greatest boot chimes of all time:
1. mac os
2. ps2
3. does anything else even come close to those

Hey, sincere thank you to anyone who is taking extra steps to be covid- and infection-cautious this holiday season. Masking, getting vaxxed, avoiding or changing events when you're ill, sometimes these decisions are not easy to make but you will never know whose life you might have saved by breaking a chain of infections.

So, thank you.

Scientists barred from teaching lettuce to send email: “it would violate the right to romaine silent”
Who is more likely to steal Christmas
Wario
5.9%
Nintendo's legal team
94.1%
Poll ended at .

Sebastian Aaltonen's “No Graphics API” post is long-awaited and very important

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

I suspect the % of our audience that understand GPU architecture enough to meaningfully understand and comment on it is quite small

as for us, our knowledge is confidential 🙃

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen

Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve performance, and prepare for future GPU workloads.

Sebastian Aaltonen
Is there a programming language which has laser pointers?
You know, the thing cats like chasing.
I can see lots of languages with pointers, but they seem to be the wrong pointers.

Every day it seems I come on here (the least bad network on the internet I've found) and see pointless spats and name-calling between groups of people whose journeys thru life differ slightly, but who all have their struggles.

Binary thinking is a curse, and zero-sum mentality. Rights are not a pie, and those with different oppressions are not your oppressors.

I'm begging folks to have genuine conversations with people, as people.