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Take a drink every time someone says "unicode characters" but really means "characters that aren't usually used in English"

It was a great time! #mch2022

#mch2022 look ma, I'm on the big screen!

I'm on a ferry that was launched in 2022, and the tablet PC that dispenses beverages in its restaurant is probably more powerful than all the computers they used to design the predecessor to this ship (which was launched 1988).

And they use this computing power for nothing more than to display the shittiest beverage dispensing UI you could conceive of!

Tom and Jerry are a couple

I think we should expect the Banach-Tarski paradox to be unintuitive, because after all it does not describe the physical world that our intuition is based on.

To be clear, the identity server is an _entirely separate_ service that provides a single feature only: the ability to look up someone's Matrix ID from their phone number or email address, if they've added it to the server. Why is it a thing? Because nobody has yet figured out a way to do it decentralized (no, DHTs don't solve the issue of verified ownership). I think maybe they just shouldn't have a thing that scares people this much, even if it's harmless and possibly useful to someone.

Hot take: I believe the 3PID and identity server system in Matrix was sort of a mistake.

Its usage is entirely optional, explicitly opt-in, and the actual Matrix protocol has no sort of dependency on it whatsoever. But its existence and proneness to getting misunderstood almost makes me feel like Matrix is accidentally self-FUDing themselves with its existence.

Using the word "distro" to refer to separate operating systems that are mostly compatible yet incompatible with each other in subtle ways, is actually FSF propaganda to further their viewpoint that all these OSes are actually merely their "GNU" operating system, and to diminish the work done by other open source communities. In this video essay, I will

What if Valve started explicitly supporting ARM on Steam for Linux like telling developers to compile for ARM and so on

Sonic CD has such a nice idea with its time travel, but with the way they implemented it, you basically can't do it all correctly without a map of each level.

Average public bathroom scribble

Google Maps seems designed for a US-like suburban design and zoning type of environment, and can't fathom that businesses and homes can coexist in the same area. These buildings are randomly colored yellow and grey, yet pretty much all of them are residential buildings.

I am spiritually the bears at IKEA