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Rotom does cursed computing, surprising no-one.
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@edgeofeurope @futurebird Of course the people who commit atrocities are human. But they are not like you and me. It is their very humanity that makes their actions unacceptable.

@koko Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following condition is met:

You acknowledge trans rights.

Decentralised social media site Bluesky has gone down under the load of new users.

Not to worry, I'll just use one of the other decentralised instances. One of the many wonders of decentralisation.

... What do you mean, there aren't any?

... If a central server goes down, I can't get onto this oh-so-decentralised network?

I guess this must just be how decentralisation works!

@koko I saw the double hop exploit and had to try it out for myself.

@koko VOTE NO on ballot initiative to tax politicians per word on these signs

  • The Sign Painter
@grumpygamer if you can generate random integers you could possibly just put them directly into the floating point representation. Something like f32::from_bits((rand_u32() & 0x007fffff) | 0x3f800000) - 1.0 (in Rust, at least)
would return a value from 0 to 1 (excluding 1)
You can then do a multiplication (by m-n) and addition (by n) to get it into the desired range.
@koko - Removed Roko
@anoraktrend I heard about it before. Wayland already existed in 2013 but was still very new, which was apparently why Mir was created. Why did Canonical not try to contribute to Wayland, and instead invent their own replacement for X? Nobody knows
Not Invented Here Syndrome:
(See: Snap, Adwaita, Mir, etc.)
SITUATION: There is one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
One?! Ridiculous! We need to develop a new standard that covers only our use case.
Soon: There are now "two" standards.