Olaren

@olaren.dev

she/her/they/them | 🏳️‍⚧️ | software dev | part time doer of cool things | silly internet yapper | Qc | fr/en | https://olaren.dev

yup. unrestricted internet access is what allowed me to learn who i am, while being stuck in an environment that was extremely hostile to the idea. its also what made me who i am, in a way, and i don’t have a single regret about it either. it’s what saved me from becoming a bigoted idiot, really.

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · 16h ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

square enix designing the last relic step "we want to give them a good grind, but not make it to repetitive anyone has an idea?" "how about asking them to do everything in dawntrail" "oh my god is is genius let's do exactly that"

I kept getting ads saying that ketchup doritos are back and when I went to the grocery store today they weren't there >:(

I can't explain it but it feels more comfortable to watch youtube videos in theatre mode than in fullscreen

1/ This is the third time in six months that Benjamin Netanyahu has flown through Canadian airspace. Contrary to the GAC spokesperson’s claim, he does not have the freedom to make that decision. Foreign leaders are required to seek permission before doing so. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Israel says it asked Canada for permission for Netanyahu to use Canadian airspace | CBC News

The Israeli government has told CBC News that it requested permission for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overfly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Monday en route to a meeting with ...

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when I was watching "ai taking over the world" movies a child I was thinking "why don't they just shut the machines down?" and now I think "We won't shut the machines down while we still can because it's profitable to keep them running for this quarter"

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

conspiracy theory where software devs that kept using emojis (especially the 🚀 one) were actually time travelers who had access to chatgpt