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Imagine how much food could be grown and how much housing could be built without the "AI" data centers.

Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 13h

For what it's worth, I could be wrong but I think I saw that in my grocery store's checkout cooler recently, so it might "just" become more rare, but the fountain version might not be available any longer if that's part of this.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't frivilous, but I'd fund FOSS mobile stuff so that phones can be controlled by the people using them and install NetBSD, Nura, and other idiologically aligned OSes easily. There would likely be a lot left over, so I could fund desktop environment and accessibility work too.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15h

Figured I should link to the Retiled repo if there's anyone interested in seeing what Retiled is since I mentioned it, you don't have to open it if you don't want to: codeberg.org/DrewNaylor/R...

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Retiled

An attempt at creating a "desktop" environment mainly for Linux phones and tablets that's similar in function to some parts of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.x, primarily the Start screen, Search app, na...

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 19h

It's demon tech, it's something pretending to be human but not.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 19h

Slop is an existential problem. The corporations and Epstein Class ghouls behind it want to replace us with machines and erode our ability to think. It's destroying the planet. There's a reason I call it hypercapitalism: it makes capitalism do its damage even faster.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know what to do about the slop in Qt as I said before. Not dropping support for Linux due to the efforts of anti-slop distros like Nura, doing that would also be pointless since that's the main phone distro. 2/2

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 19h

I need to get Retiled to be much more usable so that there's a real anti-slop Windows Phone-style shell for phones. Inspired by this post, going to try adding support for NetBSD too because of the slop in Linux: tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_n... 1/2

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Nina Kalinina (@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt)

The new policies for the Linux kernel make it more or less impossible to support a slop-free fork of Linux, so if you're worried about the reliability of your system level software, or have ethical co...

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 20h

Unique Mario voice lines by Charles Martinet recorded for a 2009 soundboard on Nintendo's Australian website, including lines like "I love Australia!", "I love the propeller hat!" and "Ah, spaghetti, meatballs, and pizza pie".

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Adopting an anti-"AI" policy gives your software a greater chance at life, and if it dies, resurrection.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In moral/ethical arguments, I usually don't bring up monetary costs, because your money is yours to waste if you choose. But the sheer magnitude pushes it into morality territory. You, personally, are tithing 10% of your income or more, directly to the tech oligarchy. Yes, that's immoral.

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you watch all 4 Beatles movies you unlock the ability to see the secret True Ending film.

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CosmDevil @cosmdevil.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"LLMs are becoming conscious and they're going to kill us all." LLMs are layers upon layers of 2+2=4, and they've only gotten to the "=4" because we've told them "No, that's wrong" enough times. We also had to hook them up to the internet to use Google search because they're still wrong without it.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't wish to cooperate and coexist with slopbots.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

(disappointed that Qt has slop now I think but I can't really do anything about it myself because it's too big so I guess I can just not update my QtDeclarative repo fork to make pre-slop resurrection easier).

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't like doing self-promotion when I find projects similar to my stuff but will when it's slop as a way to say that at least one anti-slop alternative exists and I'm making it just so all hope is not lost

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This does not scream "authentically digital", there is nothing authentic about using slopbots to slop together something like this.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'd say apparently this mess is more appealing to make than helping my efforts on Retiled, but I don't want these sloppers. 2/2

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Just found something really disappointing: github.com/z3r0n3br4ins... This thing claims it uses Python and QtWidgets, but I found some C files claiming/appearing to be for stuff like the Phone app so I don't know what's up with that (besides this being slop). 1/2

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GitHub - z3r0n3br4instorm/ztOS: ztOS: a phone OS with the ztMETRO shell (Windows Phone 8.1 look and motion) on Arch Linux ARM; Galaxy S9 port, SDK and installer

ztOS: a phone OS with the ztMETRO shell (Windows Phone 8.1 look and motion) on Arch Linux ARM; Galaxy S9 port, SDK and installer - z3r0n3br4instorm/ztOS

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Toadie 🏳️‍⚧️ @updatedtuesdays.com · 14/09/2026

True Metro design language(UI/UX), like actual Communism, has never been fully implemented. And, again like communism, was failed by it's implementors to placate a combination self-interest and external pressures.

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Forecast Channel @forecastchannel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Windows Phone in my head is telling me it's currently raining asbestos!

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And "AI" will never evolve past mimicry since that's how it works.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That includes those "reverse engineered" adobe softwares. Don't even download them.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Vibe coded programs are extremely dangerous. You have no idea wtf the code is made to do, and neither does the person distributing it. Like sure, it could infect your PC or create backdoors, but also memory leaks, render files unusable, brick it so you can't boot, anything Do not install them

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

If you still have the Epic Games Launcher on your system, don't update it and get it the fuck off of your computer. There's no telling what damage it can do or what vibecoded landmines are waiting in it.

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JCog @jcog.dev · 14/10/2026

"Though it does have advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart." behold, advanced digital commerce technology:

screenshot of Amazon's shopping cart page on October 12, 1999 via the Wayback Machine

https://web.archive.org/web/19991012180636/http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/shopping-basket

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Luxar The Nekomancer @ Confuror 2026 @luxar92.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Vibe coded Kernel level anticheat. Im sure nothing wrong can come up from this

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Chuggaaconroy @chuggaaconroy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They’re protected by the guardian.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Links used in post: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXC..., www.reddit.com/r/supermario... Other people mentioned in post: bsky.app/profile/noki..., www.reddit.com/user/SukeSJ/

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SM64’s Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All

YouTube video by pannenkoek2012

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In Super Mario 64, tiny slivers of exposed out-of-bounds areas will cause Mario to bonk if he collides with them. However, the exact same scenario in Super Mario Sunshine is much more cruel to Mario. Here, instead of merely bonking, Mario will break his spine.

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Chuggaaconroy @chuggaaconroy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thinking about that cool Wii U Zapper that never released. It used the screen as a sniping scope.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At what point does a desktop environment for a plain Wayland compositor stop being just a shell and become a window manager manager? (probably when your shell has its own multitasking switcher and tells the compositor what to do with the windows and their sizes). (this is about Retiled)

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sound Fantasy was a cancelled SNES game that would have used the SNES Mouse to draw pictures to turn into sound, like a musical Mario Paint. A prototype of it surfaced in 2015. One of the sample images is this unique illustration of Mario that plays the Happy Birthday song.

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Sarah @winocm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

...If anybody's looking for a person who basically does everything from compiler {backend,frontend} development, GPU driver development, to hardware/firmware security research, let me know.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

without too much trying to figure out how elements should look if I want to. I think it will be a few years before doing that since I want to do other stuff for a while, like videos, and I might work on it if I'm bored with everything else. 2/2

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What I'm doing with coffeebisquit is developing the static version now so that whenever enough features are implemented and the interface is finalized enough, I can do a federating, Go-based PeerTube alternative... 1/2

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think smartphones should be merely companion devices to a laptop or desktop that can also call and text.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One time, [FRIEND] who worked at [STUDIO] showed me [THING] from [MOVIE] and told me they literally rescued it from the trash. That's a separate issue but the point is these hoarders don't want to preserve shit and they don't know how to care for what they've swallowed up

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guarantee you this was a preemptive defense against the Ellison failson just immediately fucking nuking the entire archives into oblivion.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.

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Alexis Jhon (AGR/AMKPBA)🇺🇦 @alexisgaming95.neocities.org · 11/10/2026

#Rant: I hate the notion of "we should build everything fast to the point of ruining quality." Efficiency is good and all, but if you are just focused on rushing something out the door fast, for the pursuit of profits, then I don't think people would like that.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.

In Paper Mario, the original version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, Whacka was just a harmless whack-a-mole creature that could be abused to get Whacka Bumps, extremely valuable healing items. After being hit enough times, the Whacka goes extinct, teaching the players the consequences of their actions. However, in the Switch version of Paper Mario: TTYD, he instead moves to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and becomes an optional superboss with 108 HP.
He is fought at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and has to be hit 8 times in order for the fight to activate.
but also
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Whacka symbolizes karma for killing him in past games
ring the bell 108 times, per Japanese tradition? The ringing of the bell represents the 108 bonno-defilements of man..
Buddhism holds the view that there are precisely 108 temptations on the path to Nirvana.
Therefore, in order to reach Nirvana, every Buddhist must resist 108 earthly temptations.
With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul.
the earthly temptation to get those Whacka Bumps
There are 108 qualities of praiseworthy souls
Some people think that the human spirit travels through 108 stages, while others believe that enlightenment is attainable with just 108 breaths each day while in Intense meditation,
108 beads to awaken your inner light
Meditators count mantra repetitions with mala beads of 108, (100 counted for self, 8 for mistakes and for those who have not the opportunity to meditate in mantra)
108 breaths to return to your truth
108 mantras to dissolve ego into dever
108 steps from the self to the soul
The Sacred Meaning of 108 Temple Steps
the journey to Whacka is a journey of enlightenment

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"It's illegal to not give me attention! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In a Game in like 2005 I saw a copy of Resident Evil 4 with a Luminoth from prime 2 on the back for some reason. Like some kind of misprint or weird fake boxart. Can anyone explain

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Finally updated my social media links on my website and moved defunct accounts to their own section.

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Calicosine @drewnaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How very Shinra and Moebius of them.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yhis is the second time I can ever remember a hurricane spinning up in the middle of the gulf in october. The first time was 2024.

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