A sure sign that your bodged LAN party over 5G setup is finally working is that the League of Legends players are shouting at each other instead of the lag 🫣
Sinjo
@sinjo.dev
Perilously online computer toucher. Enjoyer of hiking, photography, and gaming. Blog: https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/ Elsewhere: https://sinjo.dev/ he/him ✌🏻💖
I love how this is basically every webpage now, even on a 1G connection
My phone wallpaper pack has 60+ images and you can get it for only £5 (or more — any extra helps support my art!). Link in replies! ❤️🔥 "They literally generate a feeling of childlike wonder in my heart!" 📷 "Bought this collection in a heartbeat"
For anyone attending #SREcon in Dublin this October: our lightning talk CfP is open! Submissions close at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday 2nd September. We're excited to see your ideas ✌🏻 www.usenix.org/conference/s...
SREcon26 Europe/Middle East/Africa Call for Participation
SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the...
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which setting do I need to change on youtube to make sure I never hear one of these auto-dubbed monstrosities ever again?
Sculpting really doesn’t come naturally to me, but I’m having a great time making silly weird cartoon animals to distract from ✨ life ✨
Above a certain scale, everything is about incentive structures. That scale is smaller than you'd think. See also: "Everyone will not just" www.tumblr.com/squareallwor...
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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one of the weirdest parts of the llm era is watching people take out their repressed rage on a facsimile of sentience
installing windows 11 is actual hell and I’m not sure the single game I can’t play on linux is worth it
got nerd sniped into spending saturday morning reading about postgres hint bits and their consequences 🙈
Maaaaaaaaan that is not what emergency alerts are for! 🙃 I get that the risk of fire spreading from BBQs is bad, but these alerts should be about immediately actionable threats to safety. A bunch of people are going to turn them off now and won’t receive them in a situation where they’re needed.
EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO HAVE MY DATA COLLECTED AND STORED BY A THIRD PARTY - SHIRT BY dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
I never want to watch a podcast. Podcasts go on when I’m doing other stuff. I will not subscribe to your YouTube channel. Stay in your goddamn lane.
Such an indispensable labeller if you're not already using it. Useful for identifying bots and engagement manipulators. bsky.app/profile/stec...
This is utterly deranged. For everyone's sake, read another book. > Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Yep. If code was never the hard part, software wouldn’t be so goddamn buggy and broken. If “code” only ever meant thoughtlessly churning out the next endpoint, you missed the point entirely. blog.senko.net/code-was-nev...
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
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I've been building up a script with config tweaks to make MacOS more tolerable as someone who was daily driving Linux (specifically Gnome) day-to-day. Do any of you have your own favourites that I might have missed? github.com/Sinjo/dotfil... #Linux #MacOS
Add script to fix dumb MacOS defaults · Sinjo/dotfiles@b235b7c
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If you maintain a #Postgres extension, you should know about (and use) `isolationtester` github.com/postgres/pos...
postgres/src/test/isolation at REL_18_4 · postgres/postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Subm...
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“No odyssey spoilers!” Brother it’s been three thousand years
Oh man. I had the best HYDRATION BREAK pic, and didn't use it.
