lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 17hthe person with the "ai haters: if all ai disappeared tomorrow could you make it through an entire workday without it" post really accomplished generational bait, it keeps popping up 030
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 31/08/2026been trying to use vscode instead of my previous "20 free floating terminals with vim in them" workflow. you can tell how great it is going by how often I realize I've been editing files in vim inside the vscode terminal for the past five minutes. 130
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 28/08/2026great way to know it's time to call it a day: realizing i typed `git checkout -p` instead of `git commit -p` only after answering `y` a bunch of times 020
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 25/08/2026watching a twitch streamer on an extended trip on a boat and now I'm wistfully thinking about how I should have structured my life differently 000
Reposted by lirnril vlqcabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 10/08/2026you'd think quakerism and doomerism would be more closely related. but no 212335
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 27/07/2026suddenly possessed by the burning desire to have, like, an rgb cube? hsv cone? as a desk ornament 010
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 22/07/2026obvious answer is that the crime that is up is murder. this guy's followers suck shit at logic puzzles. 120
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 29/05/2026i've been really tempted to compose an unhinged linkedin post along the lines of "performance improvement plans famously work so well for problem employees, that's why we've decided to expand them to our top performers for even greater gains" 020
Reposted by lirnril vlqcYaah @yaah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Welp, I got laid off. RIP futurewei OSS rust team. If you know anyone hiring systems engineers lmk. 16728
Reposted by lirnril vlqcErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026Wikipedia having to rip out hundreds of thousands of archive links bc the archive was run by a completely unhinged person is such an old-school internet story tbh, we generally do unhinged at a much larger scale, now. 71959187
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 19/02/2026sometimes i wish i didn't know enough english to read website terms and conditions 010
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 11/02/2026sad seeing programmers post about learning projects they just finished with the writeups looking indistinguishable from chatgpt. i hate the idea that 'enthusiastic llm' text structure/phrasing is so prevalent that it's influencing people's own writing style. 140
Reposted by lirnril vlqcgirls 2 @jazzcatte.bsky.social · 09/02/2026personally i love to send a clear photograph of my government id to random extremely trustworthy companies i have never heard of on the internet. but dont worry! theyre third parties. so the services i use dont share any liability when they inevitably get breached 13011
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Stranger's grocery order got misdelivered to me. Their address was just a few streets over, so I bicycled there, rang the doorbell. and handed the bag to a very reserved young person. As I was getting back on my bike, the most joyfully exuberant shout of "CUCUMBER!!" came muffled through the walls. 181
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 10/12/2025was in the midst of wordsmithing an elaborate reply to someone who probably didn't want to hear from me about a topic that likely didn't need my input and then my laptop just randomly shut off. failing hardware has got my back. 000
Reposted by lirnril vlqcJonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Spending two years trying to get a save game file for The Hunter out of Nvidia's cloud gaming platform, and finally succeeding by changing item names in a loadout to their own name and address so it was classed as personal data, then filing a GDPR Subject Access Request to get hold of it. Twice. 3165
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 01/07/2025my current xscreensaver unlock routine is ctrl-alt-f1, log in on new console, systemctl --user restart xscreensaver, ctrl-d, ctrl-alt-f7. I'm sure someone will fix the pam thing but in the meantime I've never felt more in tune with the unix philosophy 030
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 29/06/2025"browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride" what the hell is a scotch bonnet. why are they putting them into my url bars. i hate change so much. 110
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 23/06/2025seems like another all-to-understandable clash of expectations between the "sharing what I'm tinkering on with others on github is fun!" crowd and the "surely everybody else in the world is also getting paid six figures to ensure five nines on my app" crowd 210
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 25/04/2025i think if you fail a captcha there should be a button where it rings up a live google engineer who you get to drag into a completely pointless argument about what it means for a square to have a traffic light or a bicycle 1142
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 25/04/2025as much as i enjoy reading the commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads, i cannot emphasize enough how dearly i wish i wasnt seeing as much commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads 030
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I really wish it was a whole label saying "brought you to by <verifier>" instead of just a checkmark 020
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 15/02/2025spent enough time being low key frustrated at a firefox thing today that a half remembered quote eventually burrowed to the forefront of my mind and i had to download some scraped dump from archive dot org to make sure i had it right 120
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 30/11/2024half hoping for bsky to turn to shit soon so we can stop talking about how the app that's still in the happily-burning-money phase is less user hostile than the desperate-for-profitability incumbents 010
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 22/11/2024is there a polite way to be like "hey i noticed ____ doesn't post on the discord anymore, did they just like drift away or did i miss the formal excommunication for fucked up behavior" 010
Reposted by lirnril vlqcAndrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Someone is looking for a game they wrote for c64 12402278
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 11/11/2024it's probably somewhat damning of the trajectory of my mental state that pretty much since they invented 3d printers ive been going "i can think of so many useful things i want to print, i need to get around to that as soon as im doing a little better" 020
Reposted by lirnril vlqcweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Companies trying to roll back work from home policy 181745463
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 05/11/2024i'm still irrationally pleased that you can go to docs.new and sheets.new to make new documents in google drive. someone went out of their way to get some whole domains to cut like one pageload and two clicks out of a not so frequent workflow. but it feels so good. 000
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 25/10/2024random question to audiobooks enjoyers: do you ever listen to audiobooks together with other people. like on speaker or over streams or w/e, not just "roughly at the same time". is this a thing 000
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 09/10/2024okay I get that people like starting off their fancy long form articles with some meandering story but I'm halfway through the post and we're still talking about late 19th century pet burials instead of string localization issues and-- oh I clicked the wrong link five minutes ago. thatd do it. 020
Reposted by lirnril vlqcThe puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 26/09/2024Get them while they are hot! Free COVID test kits available again. special.usps.com/testkitsspecial.usps.comCOVID Home Tests | USPSCOVID Home Tests | USPS 5148104
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 21/09/2024the windows "don't forget to back up your pc" popup is extremely optimistic about the importance of the files i entrust it with. oh no not my videogame screenshots. 110
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 18/09/2024rustconf shirt rose to the top of the tshirt rotation and im feeling more impostor syndrome than ever 000
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 22/08/2024im like a million years old and i just learned a whole-ass new word > withal 100
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 20/08/2024good thing I went to bed relatively early, let me get in some reading before sleep. wait why is it 6am 000
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 17/08/2024you gotta get your ebooks as normal ass files that aren't under the control of the book store 120
Reposted by lirnril vlqcBrandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 07/08/2024If you like art and Jonathan Frakes, BlueSky, then I have the project for you: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra... 711332
Reposted by lirnril vlqcAllie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 01/08/2024We did it. We launchef a videogame: store.steampowered.com/app/1325260/...store.steampowered.comSave 10% on Kitsune Tails on SteamRun, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between ... 37835
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 01/08/2024why are car alarms even allowed. why is it ok to make it the whole street's problem that a bird flew by too close to your vehicle. i was never going to do anything about that. 010
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 31/07/2024went through some job interviews today. suspect the interviewers might just have had a bad day? because they didn't manage to bring all my hidden flaws to light and they missed a number of skill gaps. thinking of offering them a do-over 120
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 28/06/2024so many friends I've lost touch with over the years... wish I could reach out just once and tell them to wear their fucking n95s... 010
Reposted by lirnril vlqctef @tef.bsky.social · 27/06/2024making a note to describe Magic and other collectable card games as "trad gatchas" 3476
lirnril vlqc @lirnril.bsky.social · 25/06/2024twitch is kinda boring rn, maybe i'll check youtube gaming 100
Reposted by lirnril vlqcShiny Quagsire @shinyquagsire.bowser.gay · 23/06/2024lolll I found the answer, I was getting fucked by the userexperienced. Apparently it dictates thermal limits based on fan limits, and it sets fan limits based on *how much it hears the fans in the mics* If I blast white noise, fan speeds stay at max + no throttle 4315
