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@foxes.bsky.social
North Virginia (DC-ish)
SCS @ CMU -> industry
homecare/cleaning product & compsci nerd
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https://twitter.com/soft_fox_lad
He/him
SCS @ CMU -> industry
homecare/cleaning product & compsci nerd
Avatar by Fleurfurr, banner by Mel Shaw
https://twitter.com/soft_fox_lad
He/him
9 months and *so much* pain later: I've evaluated and beaten every FM-esque index I'm aware of by like two orders of magnitude w/cold caches while still maintaining Pretty Good compression
i dont even know what im going to do with my life after this
i dont even know what im going to do with my life after this
FM-indices (and other substring self-indices) are incredibly cool.
Shame that nobody has built a general purpose tool (afaik) for quickly building them over large non-bioinformatics datasets AFAIK?
If I wanted to index *huge* amounts of binary data and instantly query it with low space overhead &
Shame that nobody has built a general purpose tool (afaik) for quickly building them over large non-bioinformatics datasets AFAIK?
If I wanted to index *huge* amounts of binary data and instantly query it with low space overhead &
January 29, 2026 at 7:57 AM
9 months and *so much* pain later: I've evaluated and beaten every FM-esque index I'm aware of by like two orders of magnitude w/cold caches while still maintaining Pretty Good compression
i dont even know what im going to do with my life after this
i dont even know what im going to do with my life after this
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if only olive oil were edible and not repulsive slop
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 AM
if only olive oil were edible and not repulsive slop
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Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
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TIL you can "get gnomed" when using Linux.
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
January 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
TIL you can "get gnomed" when using Linux.
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
A combination of installed packages can cause GNOME desktop to spontaneously appear on your computer.
There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to it.
www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/
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Heroes.
We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.
Does Minneapolis have a radio dispatch set up for the people who are following ICE? That's brilliant.
January 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Heroes.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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part of the reason it's so frustrating when Dems constantly gesture at bipartisanship with *this* GOP, Biden included, is that totally screws up people's expectations when it comes to the areas where bipartisanship fails!
the issue is that dem leadership neither communicates that their hands are tied legislatively nor communicates in a way that effectively lays the groundwork for the work a future majority will have to do, let alone winning one back.
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
part of the reason it's so frustrating when Dems constantly gesture at bipartisanship with *this* GOP, Biden included, is that totally screws up people's expectations when it comes to the areas where bipartisanship fails!
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
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If people hadn't been willing to share video, for instance, the official narrative on George Floyd would have stood, and his death would have been fully covered up. It is really vital that if you have video of ICE acting aggressively, you let the public see.
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
If people hadn't been willing to share video, for instance, the official narrative on George Floyd would have stood, and his death would have been fully covered up. It is really vital that if you have video of ICE acting aggressively, you let the public see.
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We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
my grandfather is like 80 and he's going to a party in little havana to celebrate lol
January 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
my grandfather is like 80 and he's going to a party in little havana to celebrate lol
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It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
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"I'm in utter despair that the Russians are taking my apartment, and I am powerless to stop it," Anna Shevchenko, 30, who lived in Mariupol when Russia invaded in 2022, told the Kyiv Independent.
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
Putin issued a decree. Now, thousands of Ukrainians face losing their homes
Editor's note: The names of some of those from Russian-occupied Ukraine have been changed for security reasons.
With one decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin this month effectively legalized prop...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"I'm in utter despair that the Russians are taking my apartment, and I am powerless to stop it," Anna Shevchenko, 30, who lived in Mariupol when Russia invaded in 2022, told the Kyiv Independent.
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
it's a rushed reddit screed but i have made another long post about detergents
www.reddit.com/r/laundry/co...
the title is intentionally inflammatory, don't read into it too much
www.reddit.com/r/laundry/co...
the title is intentionally inflammatory, don't read into it too much
Everything this sub says about lipase is wrong. Lipase is a cost-cutting enzyme that made detergents worse.
www.reddit.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
it's a rushed reddit screed but i have made another long post about detergents
www.reddit.com/r/laundry/co...
the title is intentionally inflammatory, don't read into it too much
www.reddit.com/r/laundry/co...
the title is intentionally inflammatory, don't read into it too much
I am very glad I do not ship anything resembling normal products
different library but this issue basically
Crash: Attempt to invoke direct method 'void android.view.SurfaceControl.checkNotReleased()' · Issue #381 · zoontek/react-native-bootsplash
Bug summary This crash occurs when a Pixel user backgrounds the application before the splashscreen finishes & the hide method can be invoked. Initially I filed a crash report w/ Google but their r...
github.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I am very glad I do not ship anything resembling normal products
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Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
Not a lawyer: suppose people are held in contempt. What happens next? If they're thrown in prison, is there any reason why they can't be pardoned?
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Not a lawyer: suppose people are held in contempt. What happens next? If they're thrown in prison, is there any reason why they can't be pardoned?