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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

17 years ago they won, then at some point we lost. They don't tell you that war is something you have to keep fighting. With physical war it's too obvious to state, with ideological war it's sometimes too subtle to notice www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/…

Xkcd 546, which said in 2009 that the war against music DRM had been won

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[Sex] None of this is a reason to censor your own posts about sex. I do appreciate the content warnings because I get envious easily. Just putting the thoughts out there www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/…

Xkcd 592. The characters agree to make sex less dramatic but it gets more dramatic. "Holy shit. Guys. People are COMPLICATED". better transcript linked in the post

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

These are the GCC docs for `stringop-truncation`, a lint relating to string copy functions. Just glancing at it, from the visual design, which snippet is the correct example of how to safely call this kind of function? Is it 1, because the correct code […] [Original post on freeradical.zone]

A blurred screenshot of the GCC docs. There are three code snippets labeled "1", "2", and "3"

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

A grid of 5 columns and 6 rows showing the finger spelling alphabet, #Braille alphabet, and radiotelephony phonetic alphabet all in one. Braille is designed in sets of 10 that Wikipedia calls "decades" (Except for W) The 2nd and 3rd decades build on the […] [Original post on freeradical.zone]

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

[friendly subtoot] Wake up and read one curl dev saying how exciting it is to use vectors instead of linked lists because you can't write linked lists (safely) in C All right all right Scroll a page and see the lead curl dev saying how they have no vulns […] [Original post on freeradical.zone]

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

[cartoon blood and violent death] @aspensmonster This is how PvPvE should play out, in my head

"Paint the Line, Part Three", a strip from the Penny Arcade web comic about international ping-pong diplomacy. Gabe is playing ping-pong against a Russian man, on top of a nuclear submarine. A huge killer whale leaps out of the water and messily devours the Russian man. Gabe looks disgusted. Gabe cheers in victory.

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Dot products only work on straight data. If your data is curvy, make it straight.

The Wikipedia diagram showing how a non-linear classifier can turn curvy data into straight data.

Comic by Sidney Harris. Two mathematicians are standing at a chalkboard. There's a lot of math symbols, and in the middle it says "Then a miracle occurs". One mathematician points at it and says, "I think you should be more explicit here in step two."

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

> Building on Openwave's HDML, Nokia's "Tagged Text Markup Language" (TTML) and Ericsson's proprietary markup language for mobile content, the WAP Forum created the WML 1.1 standard in 1998

The "elephant graveyard" from The Lion King (film). I don't think these are real, by the way. I heard elephant graveyards aren't real. Fact-check that before you spread it.

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

oh my god just tell me what that shorthand code for licenses is called, yes I know, I just didn't want to read the Cargo docs every time I start a new project (It's SPDX. Ugh.)

DuckDuckGo when I search for "Free software license codes" and it's like "you don't need a code to use free software silly goose :)"

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

[uspol, GenAI slop] Tell your boomer uncle on Facebook that I said "Happy Independence Day"

AI slop image of a flatbed trailer carrying a stone bust of Obama, some USA flags, and there's some eagles flying around.

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Y'all remember trans Mandark? I mean Seasons 3 and 4 aren't _really_ canon, but it did air on television. Mandark is a cis boy because he's AMAB and male, but his parents did name him "Susan" at birth and raised him with long hair so uhhh happy last day of Pride? #DextersLab

A still frame from the cartoon "Dexter's Laboratory". The villain Mandark is portrayed with long hair flowing in the wind, contrary to his normal short-haired style

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

My ideal screen layout: - 2k by 2k by 60 FPS for coding - 1k by 1k by 240 FPS for gaming with notifications on top and bottom - 512 by 512 for checking email - 256 by 256 for Game Boy Advance emulation (no backlight) - 128 by 128 for system status - 64 by 64 for Tamagotchi emulation - 32 by 32 for

The Wikipedia image for "mip-map", a technique used in computer graphics. There is a big square image of a satellite, and then a series of smaller images, each half the size of the previous.

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

:blobcatfearful: What does OpenStreetMap know about the Earth that I don't??

A very zoomed-out Mercator map of the Earth showing "More OSM coming soon" beyond the North and South poles

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Yeah his _crack_ is _down_ there. Hope that helps bud

The cover for the game "Crackdown 3" but I've helpfully put an arrow pointing from the text "Crackdown" to the character's ass crack

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Hm, yeah. Not even the biggest dip this year though. #FIRE

Screenshot showing that VTI (Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund) dropped from 373 to 362, and a bunch of other indexes are in the red for yesterday's trades

Screenshot showing that VTI is still up over the last 12 months

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

@tek Is it normal that I have to click through all the old announcements on Mastodon to clear the notification?

An announcement from 2025 about NVMe SSDs is in a list of 10 announcements that are giving me a "1 unread announcement" notification, even though I definitely read all the old ones

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

The yellow crayon is only used for making tracking dots Maybe it works good on black paper?

A yellow crayon and a green crayon, and some test squiggles showing that the yellow crayon is nearly invisible on white paper

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

#CVS pharmacy go fuck yourself I'm not on a VPN. I'm not on Tor. I don't have a virus. You just don't want me as a customer

Screenshot of a CVS pharmacy online account error page

"We can't sign you in right now. There's a problem with your network address. You might be able to fix this by: Disconnecting from VPN, Connecting to a different network, Trying to sign in again. For help, call us at..."

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

#OpenStreetMap silly question I know an intersection where CoMaps consistently gives me an XKCD 207. Does anyone know what this is called and how to fix it? I see nearby intersections have the lanes split up, so maybe that applies enough of a penalty in […] [Original post on freeradical.zone]

Turning right on a red light, then doing a U-turn, then turning right again. This allows you to skip a red light in US states where you're allowed to turn right on red lights, but it's silly for a computer to ever tell you to route that way. It should tell you to go straight.

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Also every time I think hard about sans-I/O (or language bindings, sometimes), I think of those 3D pin toys

One of those toys with metal pins where you put your hand in and it makes an impression of your hand

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

[uspol humor] Democrats have a right to defend themselves

A map of Illinois' congressional districts, which is heavily gerrymandered (affectionate)

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babble encat @babble-endanger.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Me bitching out another environmentalist instead of fighting fascism or sleeping like I'm supposed to. (I am a hypocrite but I had to say something)

An image of Professor Legasov as depicted in the TV mini-series "Chernobyl".

He is saying "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth." And half the image is greyscaled and dithered in the style of Low-Tech Magazine

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