Meg

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I like video games, programming languages, and hacking things up with old video game hardware. I also post a lot about TV I'm watching, and sometimes books I'm reading too.

At my day job I hack on dev tools for a moonshot operating system, and I think Plan 9 is cool. I've also worked on social networks, streaming, and low level network software in the past at companies big and small.

Used to stream on twitch (as megmactv) but don't really anymore.

Anything I say here is 1000% my own opinion and probably no one, including any employers I have or have had in the past agree with me.

#NoUnroll

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Meg13h ago
Tara Tarakiyee17h ago

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

Do Flamingos Know They're Pink
Meg14h ago
Dryadxon15h ago

Rust folks, just out of curiosity, do you know why this weird type alias triggers E0119 if used when implementing TryFrom? 😅

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2024&gist=c366b957e8dc6b6d1bb9fcd174e1438e

#rust #rustlang

Rust Playground

A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language

Meg1d ago
I'm surprised there isn't some version of jazz jackrabbit on steam...
Meg3d ago
I kinda think the scrubs revival is probably doomed for the same reason a lot of these revivals are: it can't commit to either just being a continuation or passing the torch. It adds a bunch of new younger characters, but won't commit to giving them the same central role the original cast had before them, and everyone suffers for it.
Meg3d ago
Lesbian Death Bed3d ago
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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i have exciting newssss
Rowling: there'ss a new harry potter out
King: a new harry potter?!?!?!
King: OMGG I AM SO EXCITED!
Poe: steve, no!
Poe: we discussed this
Poe: you know what the harry potter profits are used for
King: i
King: yes of course
King:
King: but
Meg3d ago
Jan Beta3d ago

New video! Building a new open source 2-button joystick from a kit.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NHX1jUNG4kY
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/tBrtZyYk5iwmGZXtFX5SwP

#OSAStick #Joystick #OpenSource #OpenHardware #3DPrinting #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Build #Kit #C64 #Amiga #Atari #Commodore

Meg3d ago
Jamie3d ago

Just found out about this Bartz v Anthropic settlement where a copyright lawsuit is being brought against Anthropic for using pirated books to train AI models.

Once, I had an essay published in an anthology, so I used the Authors Guild search tool to look for the book, and it's included in the list of books being included in the claim. (I don't think I can file a claim though, since I'm not listed as the author of the book, so I emailed the editors to let them know the info.)

Anyway the deadline to file a claim is March 30.

https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

#anthropic #BartzVAnthropic #authors #AnthropicClassAction

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It […]

The Authors Guild
Meg3d ago

https://sunny.garden/@Mustbetuesday/116291057155965451

Hey i feel like there's a lot of authors out here actually and some of them might have needed to figure out how this settlement applies to anthologies? Is Jamie's understanding about whether they can file a claim correct?

And while I think there's lots of authors here, I dunno that a lot of them follow me, so boosts for visibility would be good.

#books #bookstodon

Meg4d ago
ARGVMI~1.PIFMar 17, 2025

@petitcoeur @evgandr

#Windows 95 was peak #ScrollBar. Change my mind.

#retrocomputing

Meg4d ago
Arne Brasseur5d ago

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.