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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good news about Lisp: the language itself hasn't changed much since McCarthy agreed to ditch the square bracket notation in favour of making everything parenthetical. ANSI Common Lisp merely standardised what came before it, much like ANSI C did.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Copilot, build me an app for a women-only space to gossip about bad dating partners. And require users to prove they're women by uploading a selfie or passport". "Done. You didn't ask how or where those uploads are to be stored, so I defaulted to a file index at a publicly-available URL. Enjoy!"

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Vibe coding" is like a glorified, computationally more expensive way of pressing the middle autocomplete suggestion on your phone's keyboard, only with an order of magnitude more suggestions, and an even stronger gravity well of complacent laziness. Which is how we wind up with shit like this:

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Tea App Data Breach: What Happened and What Users Should Do | Security.org

Tea app breach in 2023 exposed data from over 2 million users after an unsecured database leaked emails and private messages.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Technically, the US isn't a disinformation actor, they're a *misinformation* actor. Disinfo implies malicious intent, whereas the cunts in the current US administration have no idea if their arses are pointing upwards or downwards. Which in some ways, just makes the US even more of the same threat.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nah m8, sooner or later, you're gonna reach your program's last closing parenthesis, and then you'll be left asking: "(boundp 'next?)" 🤷‍♂️

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, I think we should confiscate AI-assisted coding features from users who unironically use the term "vibe coding" to describe their workflow. Pure dread is the knowledge that eventually, a "vibe coder" will fail upwards into a role managing government and bank records and then BOOM, we're toast

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shit, I don't even use auto-formatting. Vertically-aligning similar or related statements makes multi-cursor editing much easier. Then again, if you've seen what my Git commit logs look like in a terminal window, you can expect me to be neurotic about precise, deliberate formatting.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

;; (Yes, . '(I know how to use cons cells, shut up))

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(cons . (quote (🔥)))

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Conversion Therapy", or as I like to call it, "Psychological Waterboarding".

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Alright, this bloke's got a nasty case of DDLG shit going on, and yes, I am kink-shaming.

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Kink Shaming

YouTube video by Patrick's Stump

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"My Type" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST MY COMRADE IN ARMS FELLOW CHILD OF NATURE WHAT IS THIS "TYPE" QUALIFIER OF WHICH YOU SPEAK? Long-haired, blonde or brunette Caucasian 30-somethings? Because that descriptor also fits at least other AI-generated women I rated as *unattractive*. This quiz is cooked.

A quadrant of 4 AI-generated photos of women that, according to my results from the "Your dating type" survey, represent my "type" of women I find attractive, with the only common denominators being Caucasian ~30-somethings who are brunettes or blondes.

Not shown: the many, many long-haired, brunette, blonde and Caucasian women I *didn't* rate as finding attractive, so whatever the quiz's author meant by "type", it's damn well lost on me.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"How mainstream your taste is: About average" (More distinctive than 58% of other straight men) "How accurately we could predict your taste: A lot less than average" (Ratings harder to predict than 91% of my cohorts) Not… really sure how that works, but okay. 🤷‍♂️

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I took that "dating type" test that went viral on Twitter last month. Even though I knew the pictures were of AI-generated women, I still felt like an absolute cunt rating 81% of them as unattractive. (I goddamn HOPE they were AI generated, and not photos of poor random women found online).

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Viral dating test claims to reveal your exact ‘type’ by rating faces - Dexerto

A new attraction study has gone viral on X after users began posting personalized reports claiming to reveal their dating “type”.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good news, I found the "About you" page. Turns out I had to be on amazon.com (and not amazon.com.au) to find it. Bad news, it's still empty. 😂 But I think I suspect the real reason other than having no IoT devices—I do my shopping in brick-and-mortar retail stores. So, of course I'm like a ghost.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I just learnt Wikipedia's source editor allows you to open links like [[Help:Links]] by holding down the Command key (⌘) and clicking on it. For {{Template names}}, it opens the template's documentation page. … and I discovered this purely by accident because I was holding down the wrong key.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, and Perl's `pack()`/`unpack()` functions make wrangling binary data a cinch. Python and Ruby borrowed the same concept, albeit with different specification syntax.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yup. You can also use the `-0[hex/oct]` switch to set $/ from the command-line, and `-00` enables reading in paragraph mode. Slurping is enabled by passing any value greater than 255 (though -0777 seems to be the conventional choice of number).

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Had to google who the fuck that was, because I don't ever recall hearing that name. Then again, neither does Donald Trump, probably.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

<> (aka, the readline operator) reads a, well, line†, from its argument, which if omitted, defaults to STDIN). In list context, every line is read to completion, populating the list with each one. † — It actually reads until reaching the input record separator ($RS, or $/) which is "\n" by default.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hit me up when you're ready to hear me ramble about how woefully underrated PostScript is for the next 1,985 hours.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

$_ is a scalar reference to the default input/pattern-matching context, and as for @{$ref}… that's a coercion of a list scalar (a reference to a list) back to list context. Which can be rewritten in several (clearer) ways, usually. But sigils are fun: want stdin as an array of lines? `@lines = <>;`

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, that's why I was referring to their standard library. 😉 In Perl's case,, that would be the CPAN modules included in the Perl distribution, which are well-documented and clearly-namespaced.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're so much cuter when they aren't tearing up your lawn and leaving huge bald spots in your backyard. ❤️

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And the most ironic part? The very first programming language I ever learnt was NWScript, which was a subset of C syntax. (Though it didn't use pointers, which is probably the reason I eventually grokked it).

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can read C, but writing it… it's that fucking pointer syntax, man. I see an asterisk and I start freaking out like this Gibbon because my mind can't fathom * being a deference *and* a pointer. (Thankfully cdecl.org exists to elucidate)

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Gibbon freaks out over hedgehog

YouTube video by tomelliott9

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yikes, my inexperience with C has been exposed! *retreats to Perl where the standard library uses human-readable names (ironically enough)*

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

… and now that I've reached my "positive things to say about French people" quota for the day, I gotta ask: Why is "décapitation" and "libération" just English with one of the vowels wearing a bérét? (´)

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Being 50% British by blood, I've said a *lot* of things about the French I can't repeat here, but I will give them this: resistance certainly runs in their blood. They can, have, and will revolt against an unjust system until "libération" (or "décapitation") is achieved.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Way too American. I prefer a proper Aussie `printf("G'day, cunt.");` With no trailing newline either, because True Blueᵀᴹ Aussies abbreviate their words at every available opportunity they can find. (I also would've used `puts("…")` for a smaller footprint, since format placeholders aren't used).

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What's really weird is the game files don't appear to encode NPC dialogues as, well, text. They appear to be mapped to characters that I assume point to glyph bitmaps (remember the custom font they used that highlighted on rollover? Yeah, I'm assuming those are stored as sprites somewhere…) MS-DOS❤️

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This project was something I attempted to start in 2005, though I didn't have the technical skills at the time. 20+ years of feverish devotion to programming and multimedia later, though, and I think I have a large enough bag of magic tricks to draw from…

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UGH, yes! I think the perspective from which the sprites were drawn is what made them stick out like dog's balls. It didn't match the perspective the terrain and backgrounds were drawn at, so it all felt really… off. The spell/psionic icons are probably the only thing reminiscent of the original.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Everything's normal, stop spreading anti-Russian misinformation." — The coroner, probs

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

David Ellison looks like somebody tried to mould Peter Thiel out of clay purely from memory.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*Corrupt, rich, and fucking ugly

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here's one very open channel: it's called the Seven Seas, and the price of a subscription comes out of the wallets of corrupt rich fucks like the Ellisons.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm good at catching them, just not in my Bluesky posts, which I rarely bother to proof-read, and rely solely on a dim, easily-missed squiggly red underline to spot misspellings (which a dark blue background, compounded with my colour-blindness and ageing eyes, makes noticing them a miracle).

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mate, if you don't know who Jordan Peterson is, God bless your soul. I won't be spoiling that innocence. Just know that he's one of many inflammatory culture war goblins who you're mentally healthier not knowing about.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the movie's titles are set in Trajan Pro, you know the filmmaker's not fuckin' around.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Awwwh, yiss. "The Black Phone" ruled.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I poked around, and even disabled uBlock Origin for the page temporarily just to make sure nothing was being filtered. Saw absolutely nada, sans the link to the "Create a profile for your pet" form labelled "Go to Pets ›". Guess I'm Bezos-proof. 🤷‍♂️ For now at least.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Alright, now we're splitting hairs on definitions so trivial, I'm now reading this post in Jordan Peterson's voice on that infamous Jubilee video (the one where he asks his opponent to "define ‘believe’." as if that's some sort of deeeeeeeeeeep debate trick)

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, the art style used in Dark Sun II: Wake of the Ravager was ASS. The character sprites in particular. 🤮 I don't know why they went with such a drastically different style, but I much prefer the sprites of the first game.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think we have two different grading scales when it comes ro film. Because when I hear "B-movie", I think MST3K-level riff fodder. (Warning: the linked video *will* cause brain damage).

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MST3K - Creeping Terror (S06 E06) [HD] 1080p60 - Project MSTie

YouTube video by Project MSTie

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or… wait, am I in the wrong place? I'm using Firefox to view my Amazon account settings, whereas many other people are sharing their results from what looks to be a mobile app. I'm guessing this page can only be reached by installing Amazon's stupid native Android or iOS app? 🤦‍♂️

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm disappointed. I followed the directions to my "About You" page on Amazon, but it's blank. Either I'm doing something right by spurning all IoT/wireless devices from my living space, or my interests are too cryptic and niche for Amazon to map to customer descriptors it recognises ("Troff user").

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like, you know that exit in the top-right corner of the desert map south of Tequetzel? (The one you enter when escaping from the slave fields from the northern gate). That area wouldn't let you pass into it because "it would mean certain death". That'd be one such branch-off point.

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Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some day I plan on reverse-engineering the original DOS game, extracting the sprites and sound-effects, and remaking an identical clone of the original game… only with exits to new areas that branch off into completely new content (composed to closely match the rest of the game's look-and-feel).

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