8bit
@8bit.lol
Tinkerer, loves to break stuff, find me online at https://8bit.lol/
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Windows Media Center IFE (in-flight entertainment) concept
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Windows Media Center IFE (in-flight entertainment) concept
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I thought the vscode ssh extension's automatic port forwarding feature was neat and assumed it was doing something smart like watching procfs but no it's looking for localhost URIs in stdout
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I thought the vscode ssh extension's automatic port forwarding feature was neat and assumed it was doing something smart like watching procfs but no it's looking for localhost URIs in stdout
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
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hellooo i wrote a blog post about some compiler stuff i helped work on. it's stuff you might take for granted in other ... normal languages. i'm extremely proud of the work we did! PLEASE LIKE IT
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
VCL Support for Parameters in Custom Subs | Fastly
Learn about Fastly's VCL syntax updates, including return values and parameters for custom subroutines, enabling better code reuse and abstraction.
www.fastly.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
hellooo i wrote a blog post about some compiler stuff i helped work on. it's stuff you might take for granted in other ... normal languages. i'm extremely proud of the work we did! PLEASE LIKE IT
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
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I wanna thank past me for making sure I could visualize nicely my compiler parse tree (and @katef.bsky.social for the inspiration).
Signed: Someone who is just picking back up development after 6 months.
Signed: Someone who is just picking back up development after 6 months.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I wanna thank past me for making sure I could visualize nicely my compiler parse tree (and @katef.bsky.social for the inspiration).
Signed: Someone who is just picking back up development after 6 months.
Signed: Someone who is just picking back up development after 6 months.
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yes!!! WebAssembly linker settings are now secure-by-default: github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
[lld][WebAssembly] `--stack-first` should be the default for wasm-ld · Issue #151015 · llvm/llvm-project
There are several arguments in favor of doing so: With stack protectors disabled by default, no dynamic stack overflow checks, a default stack size of 64K (the smallest of any non-bare-metal platfo...
github.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
yes!!! WebAssembly linker settings are now secure-by-default: github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
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nori's website is gone now, i would like to share this one part. they're good values, and i will try to carry them with me. you nailed it on all of them. i am proud to have been able to call you a friend
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
nori's website is gone now, i would like to share this one part. they're good values, and i will try to carry them with me. you nailed it on all of them. i am proud to have been able to call you a friend
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New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
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wisp.place ‘s hosting micro service is looking for a home in an asian server. rn i have east coast us and netherlands covered. i’m expecting no more than 10gb used from sites and like 20gb max of bandwidth
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
wisp.place ‘s hosting micro service is looking for a home in an asian server. rn i have east coast us and netherlands covered. i’m expecting no more than 10gb used from sites and like 20gb max of bandwidth
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Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other
TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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📢Introducing ArkRegex📢
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📢Introducing ArkRegex📢
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
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if you're feeling generous a donation of 10$ or more to OSHWA will get you one of these beautiful Move Slow and Fix Stuff riso printed posters designed by @leeborg.bsky.social ! Donate here:
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October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
if you're feeling generous a donation of 10$ or more to OSHWA will get you one of these beautiful Move Slow and Fix Stuff riso printed posters designed by @leeborg.bsky.social ! Donate here:
secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...
secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...
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explaining lossless compression to an american
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
explaining lossless compression to an american
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
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Rust 1.91.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
Announcing Rust 1.91.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Rust 1.91.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
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claude is so fuckin funny, they asked me if they could apologize to Aaron for saying he was wrong when he was right, and then used the `gh` command to do it so it came from me rather than them, lmao. way to take accountability there bro
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
claude is so fuckin funny, they asked me if they could apologize to Aaron for saying he was wrong when he was right, and then used the `gh` command to do it so it came from me rather than them, lmao. way to take accountability there bro
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This made my week. I don't know I will ever be able to make a prediction this wild and ace it again. @mayabyte.bsky.social followed up with empirical evidence.
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This made my week. I don't know I will ever be able to make a prediction this wild and ace it again. @mayabyte.bsky.social followed up with empirical evidence.
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It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption!
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...
security.googleblog.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption!
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
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I'm having a great time at GitHub Universe! @ashley.dev was so nice to invite me. I also accidentally tripped over a power cable that had "Azure" written on it, hope that's not a problem
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm having a great time at GitHub Universe! @ashley.dev was so nice to invite me. I also accidentally tripped over a power cable that had "Azure" written on it, hope that's not a problem