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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

... the *what* global compute cluster?

Screenshot of a Hacker News submission titled "Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster"

dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

me: "New Terms of Service? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the European Union, localized entirely within my System Settings.app?" Apple: "Yes!" me: "May I see it?" Apple: "No."

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

In practice, it's almost always left blank. When something does use it, it tends to be something pointless like the program's name or literally just "Class". AFAICT, you can also only set the class when creating a key and can't change it afterwards, making it inconvenient for many things.

Screenshot of a regedit-like tree table view. There is a key "Clients" with a few subkeys, all of which have nothing shown in the rightmost column. There is a second key "Cygwin", which shows the class "Cygwin" in the rightmost column. The "Cygwin" key has two subkeys: "Installations", which has no class, and "setup", which also has class "Cygwin".

Screenshot of a regedit-like tree table view. There is a key "Microsoft" (not expanded, but indicating many subkeys) with nothing shown in the rightmost column. There is a second key "MikeN", which shows the class "Class" in the rightmost column. Its tree of subkeys is also shown, and they all also have the class "Class".

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

okay, thanks for keeping me informed!.

Screenshot of the upper left corner of the GitHub "Notifications" page, showing an info banner that reads "This is a test message for the global banner. [link] Review this update"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This went around as a joke a while ago, but apparently there's a real command called "clit" in many Linux distros. It stands for "convert .LIT" and absolutely nothing else, mhm. manpages.debian.org/trixie/convlit/…

Screenshot of a tweet by user "anna" @meowkoteeq:
"
devs naming an app:

macOS: Swoomp

Windows: Internet Manager 6 Extreme

Linux: klitoris
"
7:06 AM · Apr 21, 2026

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

thanks, random Wikipedia editor. I might have been confused about the existence of Luxembourg otherwise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_No…

Wikipedia screenshot: "the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.". In that list, "Luxembourg" is the only country name that has a link.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

this sounds like an entirely believable modded Minecraft tool tier progression en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)…

Screenshot of a Wikipedia table with 2 columns (and no visible headings):
"Nylon 6: 2–4"
"Hemp fibre: 35"
"Aluminium: 69"
"Tooth enamel: 83"
"Copper: 117"
"Structural steel: 200"
"Diamond: 1220"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Writing a small hex editor widget and was excited to use the Unicode "Control Pictures" to represent the ASCII control characters. But sadly, the default Windows monospace font doesn't have these symbols, so they mess up the uniform line heights :( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Pictu…

Wikipedia's table for the Unicode "Control Pictures" block, showing code points U+2400 through U+2429, which are single symbols for each of the ASCII control character names: "NUL", "SOH", "STX", "ETX", "EOT", etc. (followed by a few other symbols that also stand for control characters, but don't fit the pattern)

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

The Minecraft Wiki article for Crying Obsidian can be improved significantly by removing every occurrence of the word "obsidian"

A wiki article section "History", subsection "Development", containing a table:
"February 23, 2011 - Jeb states he would like to add crying as a block.";
"March 30, 2011 - Jeb states that crying would act as a way of setting a respawn point. The idea would later be discarded in favor of beds.[3]";
"April 15, 2011 - Jeb states that the grass edge tile has replaced the crying in the texture file.";
"February 9, 2012 - Jeb states that he will bring back crying as soon as he's made preparations for more texture space.";
"December 3, 2019 - Maria Lemón notes that many players suggest implementing crying alongside new Nether features."

Another wiki table, labeled "29w09a":
[Crying Obsidian icon] "Added crying.";
"Crying is currently obtainable only through bartering.";
"Crying has no function.";
"Crying produces a light level of 10.";
"Crying can be harvested with any pickaxe."

Thumbnails of two Minecraft screenshots showing Crying Obsidian blocks. The image descriptions are "Crying in the overworld." and "Crying with programmer art textures.".

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Rewrote some Kotlin code into plain Java today. I guess that makes me a

Wikipedia search result: "Kotlin-class destroyer", "Soviet destroyers built 1955-1958", with a small photo of a 1980s battleship next to it

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

oh no, somebody got some YTP on the federal standard! (... feeferal saasdard!)

Screenshot: "General Saspects of Group 4 Facsimile Equipment" - "Federal Information Processing Standards"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

when you're a cryptographer at NIST and *really* don't like Microsoft: csrc.nist.gov/glossary?index=F

Screenshot of a list of links:

FCKMS
FCKMS architecture
FCKMS Component (Component)
FCKMS Device (Device)
FCKMS documentation
FCKMS functions
FCKMS module
FCKMS personnel
FCKMS Security Domain
FCKMS Security Policy
FCKMS service provider (FCKMS service-providing organization)
FCKMS services (protections)
FCKMS service-using organization

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

surprised that so far nobody has developed a Windows executable linker called "PE-LD" or "LDPE"

A triangle of arrows containing the number "04" and subtitled "PE-LD". This is the resin identification code for low-density polyethylene (LDPE), as found on a lot of plastic packaging.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Another example, because it's just comically bad. This is on the German support page for "Installing Windows Updates" - not exactly a niche topic. The steps are *supposed* to read "Start > Einstellungen > Windows Update > ...", but the machine translation […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot: "1. Wählen Sie Starteinstellungen [Zahnrad-Icon][Windows-Icon] Windows Update [Update-Icon] > [Link]Nach Windows-Updates suchen aus.[Link Ende]"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

huh, I thought that more modern CPUs ran on *lower* voltages? but you do you, Intel

Partial screenshot of a Wikipedia table of Intel Core Ultra processor models, with model numbers 288V, 268V, 266V, 258V, 256V, 238V, 236V, 228V, 226V

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Do YOU want to morge continvoucly like all your coworkers, but without the risk of PR fallout due to obvious plagiarism? Try morging the oldschool way using JBIG2 - the definitely very real image compression standard that is like JPEG, but bigger. Featuring amazing grephics displey quality!

Small part of a monochrome scan of a typewritten document. Three lines of text are visible: "Grephic displey systems", "see Graphic displey terminals", and "Grephics displey terminals".

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

"Ironic. He could save others from bad OCR, but not himself."

Screenshot of a digital-library-like interface showing a book with a generic icon. The book title is given as "Pptical character recognition (OCR) inks".

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Thank you, UK Government National Archives, that's not ominous at all

Screenshot of a website titled "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES", showing only a screenshot of a Python REPL with a short program that repeatedly prints out "LOOK AROUND YOU" in all caps.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

OpenStreetMap comment or rare British insult? You decide!

Screenshot of an "X" sign next to the comment 'Unable to answer "What type of bollard is this?"'

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Wikipedia editors are asking the important questions here

Screenshot of a Wikipedia edit with edit summary "can you correctly mistake a butterfly for a pigeon?"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Annd the award for the most confusing timestamps on Mastodon goes to... this toot. Posted on 13 August 2024 at 20:24, edited on 13 August 2024 at 20:25. Combined with the fact that the edit timestamp has no explicit year and it's currently 2025, it looks like it was edited exactly one year later.

Screenshot of a toot's posted and edited timestamps in the Mastodon web interface. The posted time is "13. Aug. 2024, 20:24", the edited time is "13. Aug., 20:25".

Screenshot of the same toot's timestamps, this time with the list of edits expanded, revealing that the post was edited on "13. Aug. 2024" (the same day it was posted), not 2025 as the un-expanded timestamp implies.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

how nice of them to provide a German version of this datasheet!

Screenshot of a PDF showing a small part of a table. The table is labeled "SSD1306Z Die Drawing" and the first two rows are labeled "Die size" and "Die thickness".

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

yeah, sure, that gap is *definitely* large enough for a rail track (I mean, I'm not complaining)

Factorio screenshot: A non-elevated rail track on Vulcanus, going diagonally through a cliff. There is a very narrow gap in the cliff, just barely wide enough for the track. It's so narrow that the "end of cliff" texture on one side partially covers the train track, and in some spots the cliff debris is spread over the whole width of the track.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

my thoughts whenever I look into the technical details of graphics file formats and have to think about un-/premultiplied alpha

["STOP DOING MATH" meme format - plain text on light blue background]

STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS

• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "[bright magenta pixel]"
• "Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied

LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)

[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image "PNG_transparency_demonstration", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image "PrismLenses", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors "bleeding out" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]

""Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha""

They have played us for relative fools

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

Fun fact: if you play Factorio in windowed mode and squish the window vertically when at the main menu, you can reveal some parts of the animated background scenarios that are normally hidden behind the left/right edge of the screen/window. (Works best on a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the main menu of Factorio in windowed mode, but the window is resized to be much wider than it's tall. The animated background scenario resized itself accordingly and is now much smaller relative to the window width, revealing some extra parts to the left and right that are normally hidden beyond the window border.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

someone should also tell JetBrains that perhaps this is not the most effective way to sell licenses

Screenshot from the JetBrains account/license management website. The "Buy new" button is mostly obscured by a "Rate us" website feedback floating button thing with a big icon.

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

yeah, I hate it when WebStorm doesn't handle Type guards from Dmitry. Really happy that JetBrains fixed this.

Screenshot from JetBrains release notes: "LSP, TypeScript LS" - "Bug" - "WEB-73298" - "Angular: output Binding not handling Type guards from @Dmitry"

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

Loving the facial expression of this cartoony version of the GNU logo. Spotted it in a random SO question: stackoverflow.com/q/39015453 (image uploaded by SO user K.Mulier, used under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license)

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