Notices by a very weeny construct 💀 (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website), page 3

furthermore, one might choose to interpret unix 32-bit timestamps as a sequence of four 8-bit characters:

"easy"
➡️ 0x65, 0x61, 0x73, 0x79
➡️ 0x65617379
➡️ 1700885369
➡️ Nov 24 '23 08:09:29p

the above assumes you read the integer out of memory big-byte-first or "big-end-ian" which is intuitive but not what most cpus these days do. if you go litte-endian, the bytes are reversed:

"easy"
➡️ 0x65, 0x61, 0x73, 0x79
➡️ 0x79736165 (little-endian!)
➡️ 2037604709
➡️ Jul 27 '34 02:18:29a

so,

portentous unix timestamps that spell words (los angeles timezone; little-endian architecture)

portentous unix timestamps that spell words (los angeles timezone; little-endian architecture)

@technomancy immediate impulse to call up stickerguy and do the same phrase in different font to slap over the sharpied ones in solidarity

@technomancy usa numer onnnne

til red delicious apples used to taste good back in 1893 all the way up to maybe the 1980's but then they got capitalism'd, bred only for what moves product: bright consistent solid color and resilience to blemishes during shipping. and the flavor fell out

what i don't get is why they're still the #2 best selling apple in the united states (they were #1 until 2019)

tfw finishing up a masterpiece of a toot which is clearly and unambiguously about one specific subject but hm do i really want to hashtag that subject onto it? if i do, then randos who are extremely interested in that topic but haven't yet been thoroughly vetted might... interact with it 😬

just informed that i've been angry at everything since facebook's one billion dollar acquisition of instagram in 2012

is there an awesome- style collection but opposite, a curated list of companies and/or products that have abandoned whatever utility they once had to jump headfirst into the "ai" hype

off the cuff i know of google, bing, notion, mozilla, and feedly

preferably orderable by how much harm they'll inflict by doing so

@selfsame when it gives a correct answer, if you ask "where in the docs does it say that" it says "i dunno"

putting "prompt engineer" on my linkedin now

i will Gotta Hand It To google exactly one thing: by enshittifying their products so thoroughly, they made it easy to say "why not block them in my robots.txt? the search results are shit anyway!" and similar arguments

that's so convenient! thanks google!

imagine if they spent just $1B of their $290B annual revenue on end user quality, making stuff that i really want to use, that i feel like ehhh i hate that they violate my privacy but it's kinda worth the price? wow that would be stressful!

google, another job well done!

for the past several work days i haven't been able to read the text on my pair-programming partner's screen-share that we do daily in google meet. looks like we've both been capped at 720p, while our desktops are 1080p. so it's just a blurry mess

this is great! i'm super excited about it. thank you google!

because it means i get to do a trial run of alternatives including self-hosted jitsi and possibly never have to touch google fucking meet ever fucking again

surprised by the results of this poll, it didn't go the way i'd have chosen

i think i'd probably? trade an eye for the fantastic privilege of spending the rest of my life stress-free building what i want instead of what some employer wants

bit of a toss up since my current employer is not too bad and statistically i've only got 22 years of grind left

but if i were still at the old bad job and i were 20 years younger? heck yeah in a heartbeat!

feels like there should be some kind of clever human-organizational process ritual/hack that can organically and without explicit paid management hierarchy tap the skills of tens-of-thousands-strong masses of laid-off computer-touchers, to build various not-necessarily-profitable software artifacts capable of utterly obliterating their former shitty employers

and like a math proof or a geometric tiling it's just a matter of discovering it

@technomancy wait what, even "software engineer" means something extra outside of the usa?

@technomancy oh yeah, "developer" is totally interchangeable with "engineer" depending on which one the company that you're applying to work at thinks is superior

so many nerds want to fight about the actual definitions but they mean ~nothing~

apropos of nothing it's nice to see my fellow computer touchers out here calling themselves "programmers" like i do even though that is Not Done irl (because a "programmer" makes less money than a "software developer")

wow i have successfully hoarded enough glass spaghetti sauce jars and lids that now i'm totally comfortable saying "no, we have enough, let's just recycle this one"

can you imagine how much of my house is absolutely crammed full of empty spaghetti sauce jars omg

working on some frontend website design stuff for the employer with lots of text and photography, checking things look right on the employer-issued retina macbook and going back to my hardware for linux, is beginning to make me envy high-dpi displays. a little.

i think as soon as i get onto wayland so i can have a desktop span a mix of low and high dpi monitors it will be time to upgrade one of 'em

ah, here's one definite benefit of high dpi displays

when google meet [contrary to any user request or preference] slightly shrinks the shared screen full of code,

[interstitial rant about how shitty fucking google goes out of their way for some reason to make it impossible to have a 1-to-1 full-resolution view]

... it's all fuzzy blur on my normal 1080p monitor but on this laptop's 227 ppi screen it remains readable (with squinting)