eightbitraptor

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Ruby core committer. Low-key weeb. Drinks a lot of coffee, listens to loud music. Makes keyboards. Fixes MiniDisc players. Proud Luddite. I love Fountain Pens, Linux & Emacs.


日本語を勉強しています。でもまだ上手じゃないです。助けてくださませんか 🙇

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I am not sorry.

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

@codinghorror I'm slightly surprised to see a region B/2 copy of Tombstone! I love that movie! How's the transfer?

New post by Jacob about recent heap modeling optimizations in ZJIT :D

https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/

How ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

ZJIT’s optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRuby’s shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.

Rails at Scale
If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSS—often without users' knowledge—and cut out the creator.
Perhaps the uncritical use of LLMs in our FOSS ecosystem is a symptom of burnout in our maintainers and projects.
Well, I for one am extremely relieved that the line between the "defensive" strikes Keir Starmer said UK bases could be used for, and offensive ones is so clear-cut, and that we can trust the US to respect it on every sortie. Phew! ukaviation.aero/raf-fairford...

RAF Fairford at the centre of ...
RAF Fairford at the centre of Operation Epic Fury: Britain’s strategic bomber hub | UK Aviation News

UK Aviation News
@Philip we are living the worst timeline.
@Philip oil fields are burning