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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

fr truly is a cause to sob over. my condolences

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

They should put a new TRON soundtrack out every few years so we can all collectively pretend there’s a movie attached to it.

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philpax @philpax.me · 12h

fascinating choice on syncthing's part to default to a 1% free disk space check for its database instead of something proportional to the content shared

I really don't think its database needs 20GB of free space on my 2TB SSD for the 250MB I'm sharing!

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philpax @philpax.me · 13h

crates.io/crates/cudarc is also pretty well-maintained, and is used by github.com/huggingface/...

there's also github.com/tracel-ai/cu..., used by github.com/tracel-ai/burn

all things considered, I think it probably has better support than any language not called C or C++

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io

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philpax @philpax.me · 13h

does anyone know of any algorave efforts in VRChat? seems like the ideal medium to gather the right sort of nerds together

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philpax @philpax.me · 14h

might be doable with termux idk

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

put this on while working and now I can't stop dancing at my desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOH...

Underworld | Boiler Room: London

YouTube video by Boiler Room

www.youtube.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

it'll smooth out, you just need to be consistent to reinforce the memories on time

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max 🌌 and 7 others @sneptech.bsky.social · 2d

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

took advantage of my usual insomnia to grind out 392 Anki cards and 310 WaniKani reviews

can't leave em alone for more than a day or this happens

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

felt literal chills when it started; genuinely iconic way to play an iconic track

qdot @buttplug.engineer · 5d

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

www.youtube.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

(very) critical support for Rust's global namespace here

...still wish it had actual namespaces though

Eli Mallon @iame.li · 2d

golang developer give your packages unique names challenge (difficulty: impossible)

import (
gocrypto "crypto"
atcrypto "github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/atproto/crypto"
ethcrypto "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"
)

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

fingers crossed!

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

framework('s ceo) doubling down on this is pretty cringe

aly @aly.ruffruff.party · 2d

Yeah no looking at Nirav’s responses here I don’t think it’s wise to keep throwing your money at Framework knowing it will go to white nationalists and they just…don’t seem to care?

community.frame.work/t/framework-...

Framework supporting far-right racists?

I love my framework 13, and i’m totally willing to forgive companies and communities that make mistakes and work to correct them, but i’m pretty disturbed by the response on this one. I really hope t...

community.frame.work

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philpax @philpax.me · 2d

I was extremely concerned until I remembered that there's a non-Australian definition of the word "rooting"

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

holy shit... is there a future in which the degree of my "you should use NixOS, but" will be severely reduced?

freyja-lynx.dev @freyja-lynx.dev · 3d

woah what

GitHub - Glistix/glistix: Fork of the Gleam compiler providing a Nix backend, compiling Gleam to Nix

Fork of the Gleam compiler providing a Nix backend, compiling Gleam to Nix - Glistix/glistix

github.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

holy shit @her.dog

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

looks like the article's dated to the end of last month, so you're probably safe from having caused this particular one, but I'm sure there will be more to come

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

surprised to see someone unironically retarget theonion.com/this-war-wil... to the concept of consciousness

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

theonion.com

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Stu ~Bat Country~ Nugent @thatsextoyguy.bsky.social · 3d

this is the funniest thing the internet has produced in a long time, but only for the small group of us millennials who came of age around south london. amazing that an american has nailed this so perfectly

youtube.com/shorts/NZtfn...

can i get a curry goat with rice and peas

YouTube video by QUIX

youtube.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

non-strict-by-default is wrong. fight me

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

see Rudy's recent posts - they're actively spinning up their own AppView now

don't think a relay exit is necessary yet (I don't think they do relay bans?), but it shouldn't be hard for them to spin up if necessary

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

the initial paragraph is also quite technical; I'd look into simplifying it if possible, with the assumption that this email was being received by a non-technical user wanting to migrate to another PDS with as little fuss as possible

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philpax @philpax.me · 3d

thumbs up in a formal context: +1, sure, let's do this
thumbs up in a nonformal context: be fr now. i have nothing but contempt for you. i never want to talk to you again

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