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Emmanuele Bassi
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He/him. Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order. Proud GTK and GNOME dev. "One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop" according to a random YouTube user.
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rasputinzero.bsky.social
Adapted scene from The Good Place. Jason: "I think we're in a bubble economy!" Michael: "Softbank figured it out? Softbank?!" Michael: "This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
Dominos meme White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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vortexegg.com
The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person
brasidas.bsky.social brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · Oct 12
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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kinkgo.bsky.social
Sakurai at the head of the table like he's introducing his shonen evil organization assembly of generals
stealth40k.bsky.social Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · Oct 11
Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
bassi.io
The second day of All Systems Go is about to start. Today, my colleague Alberto Garcia is going to present his work on Dirlock, a tool to manage encrypted file systems: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...

#allsystemsgo #igalia
Dirlock: a new tool to manage encrypted filesystems, by Alberto Garcia, on October 1st at 14:50 in the Gallery room at All Systems Go
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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mattielubchansky.com
the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A guy sporting a pin shaped like a monster leans over to a big glass tube full of skin in the close foreground. GUY: Hey Geoff. I see you're not wearing a Bone Farmer memorial pin? PANEL 2: GEOFF, the skin pile, starts to talk, over the shoulder of the GUY. GEOFF: I mean, it'd be kind of tough to– GUY: It's bone farmer memorial day. GUY: We're all remembering all the good stuff he did. PANEL 3: The GUY dabs away a tear. GEOFF: Like what? Name one thing. GUY: Shh! I'm remembering it all right now. Silently. PANEL 4: THE GUY, dialing a phone. GUY: It's like you don't even know the rules of the day? GUY: I'm going to call the cops.
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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lookitup.baby
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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ezra.im
really good day to rewatch Margin Call
simonrjohnson.bsky.social Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 15
Happy Lehman Day to those who celebrate
September 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.
avitek.bsky.social Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · Sep 12
The prospect of large scale violence committed, more or less, for the memes, is terrifying. And if we're not there already, we are rapidly speeding towards it.
grahammarbles.bsky.social Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · Sep 12
If this was straightforward internecine conflict of fash-on-fash violence, that would be a difficult concept to swallow for most people.

But the idea that young disturbed men are using "normal" political categories as accoutrements to their abyssal anti-logic... where do you even fucking start?
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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niedermeyer.online
"the shooter was a trans antifa left winger, I'm sure"

"the shooter was a right wing groyper accelerationist, I'm sure"

the shooter:
ancient meme image: four panels depicting a large head saying "how many layers of irony are you on" to which a squiggly guy replies "like... maybe 5 or 6 right now. my dude." The large head replies "you are like a little baby," with eyes now glowing, "watch this." In the final panel the large head visually dominates the image in a psychedlic manner, with the word "SUCC"
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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anildash.com
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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yuyucow.bsky.social
Keiichi Arawi is an all-timer cartoonist, but episodes like #09 show CITY's team (including himself!) attempting to best him. The magnetizing effect of consecutive spreads becomes one (almost) single cut that draws you in just as much, even more packed with chaotic energy than it was before. Insane
August 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Well, damn. A true American icon.
lorengrush.bsky.social Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · Aug 8
Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has passed at 97 www.nasa.gov/news-release...
One of my early young journalist memories was getting to interview him and Ron Howard on a red carpet in Austin for a screening of Apollo 13. I bragged about it for a while! (I'm the mop of brown curly hair)
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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edzitron.com
Now Anthropic is strongly considering weekly limits on Claude Code. Users making it clear they won't accept this or pay more than $200 a month. I am confident this happens because as my analysis suggests they are losing tons of money on each user!
www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...
Weekly limits are coming... Join I was recently invited to participate in a brief Al-moderated interview by Apthropic which I completed because they were offering a $250 Amazon gift card. I was invited because I am supposedly "one of our most engaged Max 20x users" which was surprising to me. 1 log some pretty long hours and hit limits almost daily with CC but I wouldn't consider myself a power user at all. I don't even use mcp servers... Just a vibe coder building ai slop projects I probably have no business trying to build. Anyways, the reason I am posting is because I was disappointed to learn that they are strongly considering or have already decided they will be implementing weekly limits. Meaning you could, depending on your usage, max out your limits by Monday or Tuesday, even on the 20x plan and then be locked out for a week or need to upgrade or purchase additional utilization. I voiced my concerns in the interview and let them know how I felt about that. But I haven't seen anyone else talk about this and I feel like more of you should be able to let Anthropic know if you support this or not. I do apologize for not screenshoting some of the questions it was super early morning when I did it and wasn't really expecting them to talk about changing the limits in this manner. I can share screenshot of the email if anyone doesn't believe but I don't think it's that serious. dolmdemon • 5h No way in hell Im shelling out more than $200/month. That's already more than my electric bill. I think we need to push back here. If they get CC to stop doing stupid ubercoder throw all the things at the codebase shit, we wouldn't need so much token usage wrangling it. …今Reply&个17少 Medicaided OP • 4h yeah $200 is my limit too I really can't justify more. Let alone more than a car payment which I imagine some of the next plans will be. It would be cool if they could adopt a model kinda like google workspace where its lower cost for personal accounts and more for businesses. So average people can build ideas for lower costs, and businesses who are gaining real serious value from Al, can pass that Al cost (or savings) on to their customers and afford to front the cost of Al. Better-Cause-8348 • 5h Yep, I'll be cancelling if they do this, as I'm sure many others will as well. I've already downgraded from 20x to 10x and may even go lower, because the quality is still horrible. I'm constantly having to explain things so in-depth that I might as well do it myself. I can barely get 10 minutes into anything before I have to stop. No, this is what I mean. No, this is what you need to do. No, that's not what I said at all. No, did I ask for that? The crazy part to me is that it's probably costing them far more money now that they're running a more quantized version than if they'd left it the way it was and simply rate-limited or imposed stricter limitations. Now, it might take me four or five back-and-forths before I can get what I need, if I can get what I need, whereas before, it would have happened on the first try. And yes, I get that others aren't having any issues and it's rainbows and unicorns for them still, happy for you. Don't be a dummy and assume you're experience is the only one, there are PLENTY of others on here saying the same things again and again, clearly there is an issue somewhere and it can't always be the user. • Reply&个 少 Medicaided OP • 4h I find myself priming the convo until I have probably 20-30% context left before I let CC fix anything. Then as soon as the fix is over I need to do it again for the ne to maintain decent project alignment and remove an, over engineering
July 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
bassi.io
We are a week away from GUADEC 2025, and I'll be there alongside other Igalians from various teams. We have presentations covering a diverse set of topics, but we also enjoy talking about what Igalia does, so feel free to have a chat with us.

events.gnome.org/event/259/ov...

#guadec2025 #igalia
GUADEC 2025
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and wor...
events.gnome.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Most games already have a “Gore Slider” so you can reduce the amount of bloodshed but Sucker Punch really said “but… would you LIKE to have viscera cinematically sprayed everywhere? 🥺”
suckerpunchprod.bsky.social Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · Jul 12
Miike Mode 🗡️

We've partnered with Takashi Miike, the director of 13 Assassins, to bring you Miike Mode:

🎥Closer Camera
🩸More Blood & Mud

This mode puts you in the driver seat of a classic Miike film and delivers a more intense lens of Atsu's journey
July 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Ok so when Microsoft was making the first Xbox I was doing Flash ads for them and they had an 800 page brand standards binder and when I used a green that was, and I quote, 6% off, I got my ass chewed out. Fucking losers now. Have some goddamn self respect.
radiodeadair.com Nash @radiodeadair.com · Jul 13
The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.
Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics: "The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!" And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works
jarjarfan69.bsky.social Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · Jul 10
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.
July 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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gnomefoundation.bsky.social
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (@osuosl) has supported major open source projects for over 20 years. 🖥️🌍

Now they need your help to keep going.
Learn more and consider donating: osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Day 1 of living in a world with CITY: The Animation
July 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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kenburnside.bsky.social
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM