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Nicolás Alvarez

Nicolás Alvarez

@nicolas17.xyz

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Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 15h

In Argentina the main complaint is that men get like 2 days of legally-mandated paternity leave, while maternity leave is 90 days, which makes employers prefer hiring men over women.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 18h

*How to hug people over the internet*

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 1d

And the SEO crap is increasingly AI-generated and plentiful

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 1d

Screenshot of a tumblr post by somesecretpie:
"Played a bit of Silksong last night and I'm noticing some pretty big plot holes already. In Hollow Knight, Hornet is a self-assured badass who is very handy with her needle. But in Silksong, her character totally changed into a fresh idiot who loves jumping into spike pits."

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 1d

"Hello I would like to pre-order a bailout"

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

I'm very tempted to hack the home alarm too but friends have advised me "stopping poking with family devices. It never ends well"

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

"Why does your bed even have electronics, that's ridiculous" I think to myself while working on my custom ESP32-based bridge to control my air conditioner over Wi-Fi.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

Congrats on your new governor, do not stop posting about it, but I need a button to stop seeing it because my timeline is ridiculous right now.

A time-limited user mute would be good too (if you're posting too much about $topic and I mute you *I will forget to unmute*).

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

I NEED a bluesky uspol labeler, please.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

How old is she?

Reposted by Nicolás Alvarez

Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 3d

New awareness campaign

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

lol I remember helping Daeken with that demoscene-png thing, code-golfing the JS bootstrap. God I feel old, that was too long ago.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

I think it was clear enough but I still couldn't shake off the deja vu feeling at first, "this title sounds damn familiar" 😅

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

Didn't I watch this on YouTube days ago already... oh, different conference 🙃

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

bsky.app/profile/nico...

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · Jul 5

Recently LLMs got me over the executive dysfunction to start a project!

Specifically, I said "I should write a script for that but meh, I won't get it working in time for tomorrow" and a friend said "just ask ChatGPT", and out of anger and spite I went and did it myself in 30 minutes.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 5d

Do you follow him?

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

<hexa-> microsoft going down
<olasd> looks like azure looked at AWS and went "yeah, I'm sure we can do that too"
<DigitalDragons> !remindme 9d how's the google cloud status looking
[NOTICE] -eggdrop- [remind] ok, i'll remind you at 2025-11-07T17:13:29Z

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

That seems non-neutral and lacking citations. Now that you signal-boosted it, other editors will delete it...

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

Useless to prevent screen burn-in!

Reposted by Nicolás Alvarez

FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 6d

Costume Inspiration - Gator Days

Costume Inspiration - Gator Days

Transcript

Panel 1

Gustopher and Douglas are meeting up to go Trick-or-Treating. Gustopher sees that Douglas has decided to go as the classic ghost for Halloween. Various spooky things are happening in a house in the background. There are two mysterious figures on the second floor with a spider above them. And demonic entity also appears to have a plate full of eyeballs as a bat watches from above. I hear they're full of protein.

Gustopher: DOUGLAS! Great costume!

Douglas: Thanks.

Panel 2

Douglas poses in his costume. It's just a simple sheet with eye and arm holes cut out but it's effective. I'd give it four out of five rocks. Douglas explains his inspiration for the costume.

Douglas: I decided to be a ghost. It represents my fear of never truly being seen and my hope to be remembered.

Panel 3

Gustopher stands in his own costume. He is wearing the same taco costume he wore last year. He begins to contemplate his inspiration for such a costume. Thankfully, the house behind him does not have anything too spooky in it. Just a cat looking at what's going on outside.

Panel 4

Gustopher carefully chooses his words and explains his inspiration for his fine taco costume.

Gustopher: I'm a taco because I like tacos.

The cat in the window appears to be doing something. Smiling? And shadowy tendrils are erupting beneath the cat. Okay, I'm sorry. This is too spooky. The eyeballs were bad enough. I'm leaving.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 7d

Mordi says: Do you feel good when you finish a project, or do you just feel empty/hollow?
I reply: what do you mean by "finish a project"?

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 7d

Mordi says: Do you feel good when you finish a project, or do you just feel empty/hollow?
I reply: what do you mean by "finish a project"?

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 7d

prepaid credit card has entered the chat

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 7d

Well, they're right. It's just the dictatorial regime spreading lies and propaganda is the US government itself.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 7d

a cartoon of a man holding a microphone

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