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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Saturday, 22-Nov-2025 21:15:56 JST 
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@kaia mentally ill girl + guy with mommy issues sounds like one of the premises of all time for an absolute dumpster fire romcom -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 11:32:23 JST
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I thought the whole point was that it was never saved to begin with -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:10 JST
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@prettygood haha, `dd of=/dev/sd*` go brr -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 05:38:34 JST
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@kirby @allison I don't think you need any more proof that the education system has failed this generation -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 19:00:46 JST
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@lanodan @SuperDicq @hj > Steam takes a 30% cut on games, which is rather big
Is it, tho? Let's not forget Steam hosts not just games but also user content for games (the Steam Workshop), game forums, cloud saves, the ability to download games even years and years after a sale etc.
Quite frankly I don't think Steam could keep hosting an ever-increasing catalogue of games and all the other associated features (and also pour money into things like Wine/Proton, DXVK, Mesa, ACO etc)
> you cannot sell at a lower price elsewhere
itch.io lets you sell at whatever cut you want (including giving the store a flat 0%) -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:33:00 JST
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@shia @lain @john_darksoul don't you love misskey markdown? -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:12:12 JST
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@john_darksoul @lain like, rally, both of you, maybe stop for a single moment and ask me what my criticism actually is instead of instantly assuming I'm talking about audio quality and comparing a 10mm driver with some fancy electrostatic studio earphones. -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:09:15 JST
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@john_darksoul @lain I'm talking about the stupid fucking formfactor of completely wireless earbuds that depend on their special little case that is completely mandatory for their basic functionality.
Earphones should just be fucking wired and with no touch controls anywhere, at most 1 to 3 buttons on the chord.
and again, I'm not talking audio quality, I'm personally using a pair of fully wireless earphones and I really have nothing to complain about when it comes to the sound, it's the experience around the sound, how I have to baby them when I'm getting them in and out to not accidentally touch a specific area with some skin or else I engage its stupid functions, how if I lose the stupid little box then the tiny fuckers become useless, how I can't just grab an earphone and quickly throw it in my pocket for a minute if I need to hear what's around me in a rush because I might engage the gods forsaken touch actions -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 02:08:53 JST
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@lain mate, it's not about sound. My dailies for a long while were a cheap pair of JBL 510s (quite far from audiophile-grade). Right now I'm using a pair of completely stand-alone in-ears just like the airpods and they fucking suck. Not the sound, they're perfectly fine there, but the formfactor just SUCKS. The fact these things are so tiny and easy to lose, dependent on their stupid little box that you have to carry with you all the time and if you lose it then you're screwed, and the GODS FORSAKEN TOUCH CONTROLS (I can't describe how fucking much those suck and how often I engage them when I'm just trying to quickly get an earphone in and out because it's faster than getting my phone out and pausing the music or lowering the volume, meanwhile I NEVER use those intentionally cause I just can't be bothered to remember how many taps on what earphone for what functions) -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 01:59:05 JST
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@lain what are the good earphones? all I'm seeing is apple's sex-toy-shaped crap that ruined earphones for a generation because everyone's making the stupid tiny little fuckers with touch controls that depend on their stupid little box that just suck to use -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 20:54:46 JST
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@SuperDicq how tf does a security researcher even isolate a bug without having at least a basic understanding of programming and the codebase they're analyzing for exploits? And when you know exactly what the issue is, you usually know how to fix it
also, calling ffmpeg "broken-ass shitty code" when the world's multimedia infrastructure is built on it... this is someone who just wants to be edgy for the sake of it -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 22:27:44 JST
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@whitequark all x86's fault. It doesn't even make sense! -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 22:27:38 JST
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@whitequark Also, just think of how bitshifting works on a little endian machine.
If I have 0xFF 0x00 in memory then shift the whole thing left by 4, it turns into 0xF0 0x0F. Like, wtf? Sure, in proglangs it doesn't affect things as much but that's just because shit gets constantly swapped in the backend to account for LE's insanity -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 15:21:16 JST
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@whitequark except it's little endian that swaps shit -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 02:25:05 JST
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@solidsanek goats are proof that the real world has physics exploits -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 23:26:36 JST
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Alan Turing was one of the foundational minds behind computer science, arguably the most influential field of scientific research of the last 100 years. His treatment? He was discriminated for being gay until he was driven to suicide.
Aaron Swartz was one of the most important freedom of information activists of our times, helping establish Creative Commons as well as several open web standards like RSS and Markdown. His treatment? Faced 35 years in prison for trying to make some academic papers freely available, driven to suicide as a result.
Elon Musk started out with money from his father's emerald mine, lucked out on some investments, lied out the ass about how amazing a gamer he is just to then stream himself playing and using the game's UI like he never even held a mouse in his life before that stream, chewed all the wires in the backend of several US government institutions as part of DOGE, openly sieg heil'ed at trump's inauguration (whom he got elected trough election interference so blatant that Putin's election interference seems subtle by comparison). His treatment? Treated as a visionary genius.
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI, a company very blatantly taking a piss on copyright law, training AI models on copyrighted material without permission, burning ungodly amounts of resources just to run a chatbot that can't even count the letters in a word. His treatment? Treated as a visionary who took bold risks that paid off.
If you see people fed the fuck up with this world, **THIS** is why. Contributions to society are punished, but lying, cheating, and stealing to further your own end at the expense of society is rewarded. And do we even have some karmic retribution for any of these cunts? Very rarely. Sam Bankman-Fried was also treated as a philanthropic visionary until the whole FTX-Alameda Research scheme became public and he was prosecuted for the ungodly amounts of fraud he was responsible for. But besides him, who else can you think of who got in trouble for the shit they did? -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 19:29:15 JST
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The tech future we were promised: flying cars, robotic limbs, medicine so advanced that cancer is no more worrying than a common cold
The tech future we got: if you don't use a phone running one of two corporately-controlled OSes then you're functionally banned from using banking services, getting hired, or just existing in society -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:54:11 JST
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@thomasfuchs get these big words out of my face, ya filthy marxist! /s
jokes aside, it's not really an issue with another better term not existing, it's more or less a remnant of the time when right wing pundits pretended to be not right wing like Tim Pool or Dave Rubin who started out as pretending to be left wing, or a bunch of others who pretended to be "about the facts, not politics" (I believe Steven Crowder used that) -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:49:29 JST
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@thomasfuchs tbh the whole concept of being apolitical is probably the biggest misconception in politics, maybe ever, since it kinda comes from conflating actual apoliticism with "not being affiliated with a specific party or politician"
for the latter meaning, sure, movements like Right to Repair should be about the idea they push for and not supporting a party, but when nobody draws a line in the sand between things which are actually apolitical and political movements which stay at arm's length from any specific party or politician it just becomes a harmful term to even throw around -
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Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 23:49:01 JST
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every mofo on LinkedIn talks about Linus Torvalds like he made Linux with the intent to revolutionize the world, when literally every account both from him and his friends made it very clear he just wanted a UNIX system, he couldn't afford one, so he made his own UNIX clone for IBM-compatibles and that became unexpectedly popular
but on LinkedIn there's no space for just being in the right place at the right time, it must always be about mythologized visionaries who knew exactly how to revolutionize the world before they even started
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