dominic
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dominic
@barometz.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy
Embedded-systems-adjacent jack of all tiers, left-swerving but not as active as I should be (wip). Born in the late 20th century, at 350 ppm.

Chronic […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.treehouse.systems/@barometz, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Got a video training at work that uses both lifeless AI voiceover and shoddily recorded interviews and Folks, We Have The Technology To Make This Not Suck

Took some effort to fit my feedback into the available space.
February 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Playing Little Rocket Lab, a "Stardew Valley except instead of a farm it's a Factorio". I'm enjoying it a lot but boy do I wish I could rearrange my factory without time passing

I don't really play Factorios, have always been more into the Zachtronics model, but I don't hate this one so far.
Little Rocket Lab - Let's Get to Work!
Little Rocket Lab - Let's Get to Work!
littlerocketlab.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Heads up: Tusky 32 may not play nice with (Treehouse?) glitch, it's failing to load posts for me when any of them are quote toots
http://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/issues/5399
Post views don't load when quote toots are present (glitch 4.3)
### Detailed description Just updated Tusky to 32.0 and found that my profile no longer loaded any posts. Profile description (name, bio, follows, ..) is fine, but the posts just show "An error occurred" with a retry button. When I removed the one quote toot in my recent posts, they load again, ...
codeberg.org
January 31, 2026 at 10:02 PM
"it's always the last place you look", hardware debugging edition: turn on TV set-top box. No video, somehow, but audio's fine. Try apps on the TV, those are fine. Turn the set-top box off and on again. Leave it off for half an hour. Check if holding the power button resets it. Different cable […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 31, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by dominic
@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 AM
annoyed pre-breakfast takes: "std::optional<T&> is just T* so it shouldn't exist" and "an air fryer is just a convection oven so it shouldn't exist" are the same error

if you're trying to say that the differences are irrelevant to you, please say and explain that instead of leaving it implicit […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Some plants respond oddly to being put in a jar (I would too).
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Soren Johnson interviews Paul Kilduff-Taylor (Mode 7 Games, best known for Frozen Synapse). I like this show best when Soren talks to indie devs and this is no exception. They touch on English game dev culture and why Frozen Cortex (fka Frozen Endzone) didn't work […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
interface design: `std::queue::pop()` doesn't return the removed value and I have to look up whether it's `front()` or `back()` every single time.
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Watching this Xbox video about the upcoming Fable game. NPCs will always tell you how they feel about you and you always know why.

... how can something be so horrifying and appealing at the same time
January 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Building got a new entry panel with video to the apartments and NFC tags for entry. The interface design is really bad, y'all, and I have no one to productively complain to.

- doesn't say where to hold your tag
- I think I'm supposed to hold my tag to the display, which does open the door but […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Wishlist: report button that *only* sends the report to the server of origin because I don't need to bother my admins with obvious but not actively harmful spam
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
A perhaps slightly overheated video games take: fudging percentage odds to match people's expectations reinforces those expectations and is immoral because those expectations are carried into the world
January 22, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Subtooting because replies are illegal: content warnings are not for things that are "illicit", and if that's how they make you feel about a topic you should reconsider your relationship with the topic.

(does .social still do the stupid warning banner thing on cw-ed posts? That's not helping.)
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by dominic
One of my favorite customers just showed me that he uses a meowth keychain to mark the right side of his knitting project.. because "meowth, that's right"
January 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
today in helpful conversions

std::string x{};
x = 65;
std::cout << x << std::endl;

"A"

if you're lucky this gets you a warning about a narrowing conversion
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by dominic
RE: https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/115895007990452553

Remember, people can also have temporary disabilities (e.g. glasses broke), so please try to design for everyone.
January 15, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by dominic
An update to the above that saddens me to my core:

Well, fuck. I guess the PSF is willing to compromise their principles for $1.5 million after all.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html?m=1
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation’s work, with an emphasis on Python ecosystem security. This investment will enable the PSF to make crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI) benefiting all users, and it will also sustain the foundation’s core work supporting the Python language, ecosystem, and global community. **Innovating open source security ** Anthropic’s funds will enable the PSF to make progress on our security roadmap, including work designed to protect millions of PyPI users from attempted supply-chain attacks. Planned projects include creating new tools for automated proactive review of all packages uploaded to PyPI, improving on the current process of reactive-only review. We intend to create a new dataset of known malware that will allow us to design these novel tools, relying on capability analysis. One of the advantages of this project is that we expect the outputs we develop to be transferable to all open source package repositories. As a result, this work has the potential to ultimately improve security across multiple open source ecosystems, starting with the Python ecosystem. This work will build on PSF Security Developer in Residence Seth Larson’s security roadmap with contributions from PyPI Safety and Security Engineer Mike Fiedler, both roles generously funded by Alpha-Omega. **Sustaining the Python language, ecosystem, and community** Anthropic’s support will also go towards the PSF’s core work, including the Developer in Residence program driving contributions to CPython, community support through grants and other programs, running core infrastructure such as PyPI, and more. We couldn’t be more grateful for Anthropic’s remarkable support, and we hope you will join us in thanking them for their investment in the PSF and the Python community. About Anthropic Anthropic is the AI research and development company behind Claude — the frontier model used by millions of people worldwide. **About the PSF** The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The PSF supports the Python community using corporate sponsorships, grants, and donations. Are you interested in sponsoring or donating to the PSF so we can continue supporting Python and its community? Check out our sponsorship program, donate directly here, or contact our team!
pyfound.blogspot.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by dominic
“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"You have one new voicemail from "

wait, what? Did I miss any calls?

nope, blocked number.

Why can a blocked number leave a voice mail? I'm gonna have to log in to my voice mail and work my way through the menu to delete it now, that's _worse_!
January 12, 2026 at 8:36 AM
The Pokémon Horizons S1 theme remains the best Pokémon theme to date.
https://tidal.com/browse/track/453471944?u
January 12, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by dominic
Ik ben hier stil van.
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Reposted by dominic
okay, you can see what I have so far of the Analects translation here. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/analects/

I am aware that the site theme is currently rather jank on mobile.

#classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy
January 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Tidal continues to be awful (as in "makes no effort, apparently") at separating artists with the same name.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM