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Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac & the quest for the humane computer arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/jef… “He wanted to make [computers] more usable & friendly to people who weren't geeks.” <- long, deep, fascinating, as Dr Cameron […]

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Honestly `import numpy` is code smell in anything that isn't a dedicated linear algebra thingy

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Hey, always clap for all the drivers after the race, not just the podium winners. They all worked hard :neofox_heart:

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

I still can't believe the us is a real country

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Apparently you can suggest random projects to work on at work do you think they'll let me do ternary async logic based CPU

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

I am becoming more :spinny_fox_trans: irl which is excite

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Thinking about trying to learn Scheme :neofox_think: Not sure what interpreter to go with :neofox_thinking: Chibi-scheme seems kinda nice and simple, but I know chez-scheme and racket are both supposed to be good

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

I feel like as a trans-femme my birth name is more "deprecated pending removal but supported for legacy interaction" than dead.

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Matra Murena in the work parking lot! (Not my work, I almost got in trouble)

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

Ya gals got cute clothes today :akko_excited:

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

I am now a fan of `type()` in python and the amusing crimes you can commit

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

updating most things in gentoo: :akko_shrug: updating perl: :akko_scream2:

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

I want to see a EA266 and 9X side by side - the two coolest small car prototypes of the 1960s

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

things I have learned in my new job 1. python packaging and dependency management is a mess 2. google's code gives me brain aches and their dependency management is excessively strict and annoying 3. i hate bazel 4. i hate protobuf

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

Me when I write a nearly-useless 5 line recursive function that returns all of the combinations of capitalisations of each letter in a word: :akko_excited: Me when I actually do something useful/productive in my job: :akko_unamused:

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025

Old talk, but a really good talk on systemd for cynics (like me, I learned a lot!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

I SAW LOTUS SID FIGHDADHBVCCDFVJGXSFHJ I DIE BYE

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

i literally never heard of piratesoftware before like... yesterday wow what a fuckwit

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

this hotel room has no A/C and it is like 25 which in belgium is actually two hot there is not enough wind to make up the heat

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

also nononono wait this guy said "1-bit analogue"... tf is that??? 1-bit analogue that's not 1 bit a bit is a digital unit of information that's a single continuous voltage sure or quantised, so float with extra steps but nah, 1-bit analogue??? I would genuinely be happy to be corrected […]

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

there are only two types of software compilers and apis

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

I was at a presentation today where one of the lead research scientists talked about where the industry thought computer architecture was going and I just looked at the list and went "nah". I don't know what to do with my built-up cynicism. I want to be excited about novel computer things, but […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released: “Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of […]

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Zelda @zelda.zone · 18/07/2025

Respectability is bullshit, if you support games, support porn games. If you support workers, support sex workers. If you support humans, support humans that get horny. Puritanism is one of the greatest evils on a deeply poisoned planet.

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Intel Pentium when i was a kid: :akko_excited: Intel now: :akko_eew:

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

If i write a configuration/serialisation file format how long before i hate it

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

I don't eat lunch at my desk bc the company doesn't own my sandwich timr

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Me, crying: which command line override to put the libraries at the END, CMake, please... this isn't my code and I just need to link it slightly strangely Cmake: I'll never tell ;) here's six different ways of specifying linked libraries though, some of which you can override, some you can't In […]

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

I don't understand how all these companies who "no longer need junior devs" bc of genai (ignoring the stupidity of relying in genai for professional codegen) expect to later find senior devs. Kinda need one to produce the other Is software eng running towards a demographic crisis?

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

me: I'm going to write a little templating language to generate static webpages. It probably won't be that hard? I'm just lazy. Hmm, for nav it would be nice to glob over some set of pages and have a loop thingy that can generate the nav without explict pages... 6 hours later: ah fuck okay just […]

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

do not allow researchers to write build systems or package software thanks

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

Hi PC makers: there is no reason to have driver controlled switching between speakers and headphones. There is a LITERAL MECHANICAL DEVICE DESIGNED FOR THIS THAT DOESNT RANDOMLY FAIL

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Akari Mekahime @mekahimeakari.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

Trans people are cool btw :neofox_flag_trans:

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