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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Look, you might be okay with an LLM making wild 235-file commits to fix one tiny thing, but I'm a professional. All my fucking shit up is 100% human-powered.

The commit, titled "The Sunk Const Fallacy", with 1988 additions and 1981 deletions to 235 files.

You didn't think the above post was a joke, did you.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Maybe I should finally give up on code and go into modern art or whatever the fuck this is. "Crying over spilled CMYK", 2026, Three.js, Rust, lots of nested loops. #color #cmyk #printing

A screenshot from a 3D render showing a colorful wireframe of a diamond-like shape (gamut), in the bottom of it there's a bunch of even more colorful squares, which spill out of the gamut and onto the floor (because Oklab is clamped at zero L)

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Happy to learn @mechasystems is the correct amount of "paranoid". They'll be fine I think.

Discord convo:

Me: honestly the fact that production is happening somewhere you can come and film is a bigger confidence boost for me than everything else combined. the number of "our china middleman stole our money and factory refuses to work for free" stories in kickstarter projects is wild

Shoaib from Mecha: We are too paranoid to do that 🫣, I cannot be convinced. That is why we are DIYing everything.

We actually send our team while the assembly is going on, so queries can be resolved faster and we can verify stuff in person. So when the first board comes out we can validate quickly and give a greenlight for the remaining batch.

On the revision 7 pcb, while our team was there, we could identify on xray that some of the processors had their tiny bga balls dislodged mostly due to domestic shipping. So we could skip those components in queue. Since then we are further paranoid that we actually send our vehicle with the components instead of couriers.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

When wife says "there's a geocache nearby, wait here"

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

My Limited Edition M50xBT2 just became Ultra Exclusive Limited Cozy Edition, courtesy of @nof 🧡

A photo of a pair of over-ear headphones (Audio-Technica M50xBT2). The headphones are in a "metallic orange" color, except for the earpads and the headband, the latter has now been wrapped in a beautifully and carefully knit orange headband cover. The color doesn't quite match but meshes really nicely with the orange and black.

The headphones are laid on a polyester printout of allegedly a Pantone chart showing mostly shades of orange. It's pretty dirty because I use it as a mousepad.

I think I might like orange.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

I'm sure there was a very compelling practical reason they couldn't just use binary (and I bet if fedi boosts this someone will explain!) but nevertheless lolwat. edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Embroidery_…

A screenshot of the "Body" section of the article showing how the movement of the embroidery needle is controlled using twenty bits encoding addition and subtraction of powers of 3 (x/y plus/minus 1, 3, 9, 27, 81)

The arrangement of the bits makes it obvious it was punched into paper by humans and read by a machine as it went, but why powers of three is less clear.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

"Oh hey, AirBaltic is only €2 more than Norwegian on that date, A220 and Terminal 2 it is then!" AirBaltic on that date:

AirBaltic booking showing "Economy Basic" for €33, and "Economy Classic", i.e. same thing but with luggage and seat selection bundle, on the same flight, for €159.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

Pērnes ("Long Chips") have pulled off a mind blowing stunt in which their "Pizza flavor" chips actually taste like pizza. The whole pizza. Including the dough. What sorcery is this.

A pack of baked potato and semolina based snacks that may or may not legally be designated "chips" depending on the local laws (but are branded "Long Chips" anyway). This package proclaims "salami pizza" and has the flag of Italy as the background.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Oklol. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd Btw @keithamus would you consider removing user-select: none for non-game parts of this? :blobcatupsidedown:

Your ΔEOK JND
0.0034
Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Reduce reuse repair recycle starts with the "due to technical reasons"

A handwritten notice on the doors of a clothing repair shop reads "due to technical reasons, the workshop...", interrupted by a new notice glued on top "... works 10:00 to 16:00 until the end of February"

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Tā laikam būs kāda cita Virtuļa ekonomikas pieeja, es savējo nevienam nereklamētu.

Prezentācija "Virtuļa ekonomikas pieeja ilgtspējīgai dekarbonizācijai un iedzīvotāju iesaistīšanai" (no zalabriviba.lv)

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

The downside of using Codeberg is I lowkey feel bad about commits like this. (it's useful test data i promise)

A commit by me titled "Only 47 typeofs in my typeof account"

It has 58 changed files with 103952 additions and 46079 deletions.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

— `what is my purpose?` — you extend wifi. — `oh my god`

A TP-Link Wi-Fi range extender, a small white box plugged into an outlet. It has two flat rotating antennas along its sides. When rotated downwards, it looks rather sad.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

@Aphelion I mean, if you're the kind of person who values follower numbers...

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Update: I was very confident I was close to getting it working without the original software and uhh. Pro tip: if you send too many ones to the printer and it prints a puddle and you go "oh shit, guess i'll go research some more" **at least clean the fucking […] [Original post on loud.computer]

A photo from above a large format printer. There is a smeared mess of colors on a film, this was supposed to be a picture. There are repeating vertical bands of blue and orange, and two large, reflective puddles of black ink in the middle. Also some bonus checkers painted in white and orange on the metal clip holding the film.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Can't figure out if this is any better or worse than "planting trees"

AirBaltic checkout upsell: Starting in 2025, Europe will mandate adding SAF to jet fuel, beginning with 2% in 2025 and increasing to 70% by 2050. To accelerate this transition, you can opt to add more SAF voluntarily. We commit to using the fuel you contribute within 12 months.

Options range from 88 cents for "approx 2%" to 44 for 100%, presumably referring to the average amount of fuel required to carry an average passenger, which my fat ass certainly exceeds.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

This might be the first ice cream packaging that makes a song play in my head. Will never believe that was not intended. When it's ~~cold~~ hot outside...

A 500g package of Rūjiena barberry and marshmallow flavored ice cream, displaying a golden unicorn with a rainbow mane and a rainbow behind it.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Heeeey. I just remembered I have a silly phone gamepad I wanted to use on the GPD (but it didn't quite fit, it not being a phone). But now I have a phone that can run AntiMicroX. Which means:

An Ipega "phone-hugging" one-sided gamepad put around a Xiaomi Poco X3, effectively extending it on the bottom to have a physical joystick, d-pad and extra two side buttons. The screen shows AntiMicroX, used to rebind the joystick to be a "scroll wheel" and d-pad to be arrows. Bindings are rotated since the whole setup is supposed to be horizontal. But it looks way more cyberpunk like that, and is also surprisingly usable.

Yes, those are CDs on my ceiling. No, you don't want to know.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Labāk par Rīgas Satiksmi bet tik pat nevajadzīgi un skumji. Prasts.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

Went outside to check out the new blazing fast framework. Not particularly DRY today. #Līgo

A Līgo bonfire, arranged in about 2x2 meter rectangular shape.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

Now I wonder what other predefined navigational statuses there are.

Screenshot of Marinetraffic info on the container ship NCL Salten, currently stuck in someone's garden.

Navigational status: Aground.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

Oh hey apparently they've released Pocket 4, cool. Let's see what they say about the battery...

45Wh Battery, 9 Hours of Video Playback

Battery optimization for ultra-long battery life, reducing the need for frequent charging. Provides stable and reliable power support, providing you longevity for creative work and entertainment.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

Ohh, did they turn this garbage on in EU after all?

Google's stupid LLM burning a tree to helpfully explain to me a common culinary statement I just made up right now.

The phrase "three forks are better than four spoons" is a common culinary and cultural statement. It suggests that forks are more versatile and useful than spoons, especially when it comes to eating solid foods. Spoons are primarily for liquids and slurping, while forks allow you to cut, pick up, and manipulate food more effectively.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

Apparently Gmail now allows through `display: flex` but not `flex-direction: column`. Hilarious. A+ 10/10. Yes I shouldn't use the same CSS for the actual website and the monstrosity that is HTML emais, but I promise I have excuses. Does Google?

A screenshot of a portion of an email rendered in the Gmail web UI, where sections of the text have instead become vertical columns of varying widths.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

Week 2 of "turns out we forgot to rebuild the mirror in 2016, oops" will likely involve a BIOS (Firmware) Transfer Tool.

A four step how-to on changing the firmware on Western Digital HDD controllers. Step one is an image of a "Hot air rework station", helpfully clarified to be the "firmware transfer tool" we are going to need.

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