Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I've lost track of the number of programmers I've introduced to basic philosophy 101 shit like Plato's fucking Cave

this is not surprising at all

@mosgaard my only real "i need this" holdouts are from Felt Instruments. One of their keys has made it into everything I've done, and Kolor *is* my channel strip

@janl @cczona there’s actually a way to set a custom window corner radius in GG, I set mine to zero and it looks ace; though it makes the exaggerated rounded buttons in small dialogs look cartoonish in context

defaults write -g NSConvolutionOverride1 -float 10

Where 10 is your desired corner radius. You have to quit and restart apps for it to take effect.

@fraggle and now, thanks to the erosion of time, it meant "too many to count" and now just “a heck of a lot”

@AlexanderVI @esoteric_programmer “Defenestrations of Prague” sounds like a great album name

@esoteric_programmer @AlexanderVI I looked it up, we have over 100k words in English, and even most native speakers don't know more than about 30k of them

@AlexanderVI @esoteric_programmer

this. English is, literally (and I mean that in both meanings of the word) one of wildest endeavors humans have ever thought was a good idea

@glyph is it ok to opt out of friendships because the other person is so enamored of their chatbot?

as someone who tried contributing to OSS projects before I really had a handle on programming,

none of this stuff about OSS projects embracing vibecoding, slop, or fascism surprises me *at all*

if anything, what I'm seeing is the mask finally coming off

Do you remember a time when installing new software led to some enthusiasm and curiosity for what new capabilities it could have, instead of what's now broken and what spying it includes?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

My partner echoed a TikTok going around about how, in English, we don’t have a dedicated word for “the day after tomorrow” but we do have them for silly things like “throwing someone out a window”

After some research she found “Overmorrow” from Olde English for the first one, and I think it’s time to bring it back.

My favourite thing about Google products is how you can turn off any and every setting you want and they’ll just ignore that if they feel like it so somebody’s number goes up but oopsies.

@arendleejessurun as someone allergic to lyrics in my own pieces, the titles have tended to come up organically during the production of the piece, often derived from the theme or what I'm thinking about when making it

@thomasfuchs Crystal Quest. I remember it so fondly it inspired a game jam entry

this morning, in computers are 100% cursed:

- I turn on both my computer monitors, to which one of whom's usb hub is connected my primary keyboard and a macropad; both monitors are connected to a Thunderbolt hub. This setup has been working flawlessly for over 3 years
- the keyboard's underglow lights don't come on, indicating lack of power, but the macropad's lights do
- logging into the computer and firing up diagnostic stuff, it seems nothing on the other end of the thunderbolt hub is visible; not even the monitors, even though they're working
- I tried various arrangements of plugging stuff into other things, none of which changes; only plugging the keyboard into the thunderbolt hub directly helps the keyboard become visible
- While trying to put the Thunderbolt hub back (it's in a difficult to reach spot under my desk), I accidentally unplugged it. After it powered back up, USB connections via the monitors work again

"turn it off and back on again", what would we do without you

Re: map projections, one of my favorites is this one I saw at the Seattle Aquarium that unifies the oceans into a single mass while maintaining scale

can't wait for prompt injection to become illegal under the CFAA. “what you said tricked my bot, that's illegal computer access!”

I've seen stupider things happen

First day of school song, by the child:

I don’t want to poop at school,
Poop at school,
Poop at school,
I don’t want to poop at school,
We have a bidet at home

What worries me far more is the future of DNS and domain names, which ultimately are under US control and with the Trump administration it is being used to force the deletion of domain names from DNS that the Trump administration doesn't like. See https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117200308433923512

Also, investors vetoing decisions about who a CEO chooses to employ as a consultant? Terms are rough these days