@blabaere

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I'm wrong on the internet, mostly about wrestling with computers in general but especially about programming.

l boost almost all book recommandations and a lot of nice pictures.

My name is Benny, for we are lesions.

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Do you ever feel like your IT system landscape is drowning in complexity? 🤯 Every change gets harder, costs rise, and errors multiply – and our typical solution? Add even more complexity! 🤨

In his session @ufried will show how doing less can actually achieve more. Learn the difference between essential and accidental complexity, discover common complexity drivers, and explore actionable strategies to simplify your systems and ensure long-term viability. 💡

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Memes didn’t exist before Twitter/Facebook. OK, maybe they did, but they certainly didn’t before the interne…

I wrote a work-stealing task queue library for Rust! It's called takeaway, and I just published a version I think is ready for use. The only popular task queue library out there (for Rust) is crossbeam-deque; compared to it, takeaway provides a higher-level API with a lot more features. I wrote it as part of my very-very-WIP Rust compiler, which needed the unique feature of task prioritization; takeaway's since grown a lot, and manages competitive (if not better) performance to crossbeam-deque! You can find it at https://crates.io/crates/takeaway; I've also written a blog post about the design and implementation process, at https://bal-e.org/speed/krabby/takeaway. If you're writing a performance-intensive, task-based program in Rust, or if you're already using crossbeam-deque, please check it out.

#rust #programming #optimization #takeaway

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

Welcome to Zellij - a terminal workspace designed for comfort and joy.
Do you know our video and text tutorials?

This basic functionality tutorial (now in a new improved version!) will walk you through everything a beginner wants to know, from user interface to the must-know features >>>

https://zellij.dev/tutorials/basic-functionality/

Basic Development with Zellij

How to use Zellij as a powerful engine for terminal development

🇫🇷 Nucléaire : quatre unités de la centrale de Gravelines (Nord) sont lundi à l'arrêt en raison de la "présence massive et non prévisible de méduses" dans les stations de pompage de l'eau servant au refroidissement des réacteurs, a annoncé EDF.
Dear GitHub users. Forgejo exists (and is the software behind Codeberg). Radicle exists. Sourcehut exists. You’re welcome to join! And with forgefed we also have a federated approach. We were building all of that while you were sleeping ;) Maybe you are now ready to help us build a better, more decentralised code sharing future?

Ayé c’est fait : le #Quacken a son firmware en Rust, grâce à #Keyberon !

On a ramé un peu plus que prévu avec @NuclearSquid, mais le Rust embarqué c’est magique. Pas encore totalement sec, mais magique. 🙂

https://github.com/Nuclear-Squid/Quacken/tree/main/firmware

#Ergol #EmbeddedRust

Quacken/firmware at main · Nuclear-Squid/Quacken

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Memes didn’t exist before Twitter/Facebook. OK, maybe they did, but they certainly didn’t before the interne…

@acb we need to start doing this again now...

<note to self: Horsemaning, perfect for any occasion 🤣 >

@robchapman @acb There’s already a website.

https://horsemanning.com/

Horsemaning & Horsemanning | The Official Website | Better Than Planking

@xvf17 @acb This just gets better as the day goes on..👏👏🤣
@acb yah we pretty much started dicking around the very second cameras hit the consumer market.
@acb I could be wrong but I’m 99% sure that Kojima actually invented memes in MGS2.
@jk @acb well, since Dawkins coined “meme” 15 years before MG2 to describe a phenomenon that was already widespread; probably not.
@MartyFouts @jk Dawkins used the term as an observation of a natural phenomenon, and specifically its analogy to genetics/natural selection. The term broadening to mean “in-joke that spreads beyond a tightly-knit in-group” followed later.

@acb @jk Indeed. Except that I would say narrowed rather than broadened because it seems to me that such in jokes are a subset of Dawkins’ original concept “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation”

At least that’s how it felt to me when the modern usage of “meme” first appeared.

@MartyFouts @jk @acb yup. Also most ”memes” don’t become memes in the original sense.

Picture + headline is a comic (like Larson) or possibly an ad.

@acb While looking through my 2nd great grandmother's photo albums I found a first photobomb.

@acb

No PhotoShop!

@MarcusMASTO @acb Before the Adobe app, a photo shop was a physical location where photos were developed and potentially doctored.
@acb given the age of some of the hand drawn workplace posters I have seen, I would guess visual memes predate photography.

@acb Once at a wildlife refuge:

"Why are the giraffes licking the fence posts? Are they salty? Does it build tongue strength?"
"No, they're bored. One started it, and then they all copied one by one."

@twifkak Also, orcas wearing dead salmon as hats, a thing that comes and goes as fashions do
@acb did you see the article about the medieval manuscript snails bothering knights? @openculture just tooted it. So good. https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/why-knights-fought-snails-in-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts.html
Why Knights Fought Snails in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm... whilst if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. - George R. R. Martin, The Mystery Knight As any Game of Thrones fan knows, being a knight has its downsides.

Open Culture
@kat @acb @openculture the "terror in the garden" hypothesis is quite likely! It was an agricultural society after all. Or maybe it's just a joke; the harmless little snail depicted as a dangerous monster.

@acb

Horsemaning presents a rigorously controlled study in disembodied identity:

https://youtu.be/LTAh7b8XgqY?si=hsxhh4KkuPiihkuP

Luc Leclerc - Horsemaning (Official Video)

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@acb memes existed as pop culture references. In the ‘70s and’80s it was common for Star Trek fans to say things like, “This pizza serves Vaal!”

When the internet came around, those references became images

@acb Well memes definitely didn’t exist before photog— ::looks in an 18th-century newspaper::
@acb Scary, but also cool.
Post mortem photography: Morbid gallery reveals how Victorians took photos of their DEAD relatives posing on couches, beds and even in coffins

Known as post-mortem photography, some of the dearly departed were photographed in their coffin. In others, they were made to look like they were in a deep sleep.

Daily Mail

@praetor Early film technology was primitive, so exposures were longer. Asking someone who was still alive to hold a pose was more of an imposition.

By that token, many Victorian photographs of kittens were of dead ones that had been posed.