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@wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
people seem to forget that most software sucked even when it was written by hand
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
much of life feels like a sigh op
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
do you remember the first time you laid eyes upon “Comic Sans MS“? at this point many people probably first saw the type in the physical world before on a screen.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
arrange your code so that `git pull my finger` really means something. you have the power.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
buy expensive portable electronics so that you can experience the future. apps that just display stuff like this most of the time.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@wafflesies/117295… dudes rock
infosec.exchange
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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero
side on view of a wilkinson ADC full of DIP ICs. it is very orderly and rectilinear and densely packedside angle narrow DoF view of part of the board, showing lots of tantalum capacitors and 74 series logic
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
the virtual machine isn’t real. it can’t hurt you.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: foojay.social/@hannotify/1172733734… that friend at the gym who takes a 20 second pause at the top of a bench press because their brain is full and then just dies
foojay.social
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/11713374… Werner‘s Shower
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
t.i.l. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_(computer…
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
on the internet all anyone knows is that you’re a mozilla/5.0
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Trying to make RIDE happen as an acronym this week: Retire Immediately Die Early.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
just gonna !Send it
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
the goose has restored my faith in the power of the intenet
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
build a data icehouse in 24 hours with a coupla cold ones and various apache-licensed pre-LLM-era slop
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
doubting folks’ professional abilities based solely on the amount of vocal fry they constantly creek out
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
a propaganda machine for misunderstood programming languages and developments surrounding them
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
it goes back into its home to consume the reels
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
kinda tired of obviously-ai-generated anti-ai articles at this point. i don’t judge, but practice what you preach.
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
i got this job in the abstract factory inspecting slop forty hours thirty-six tokens a week but it’s a paycheck jack
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
nom-nom-nominative determinism
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
data grave – is this a thing?
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
hope is knowing that every quip ever written is going to be deleted quite soon!
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
when your dreams about work become lebowskiesque
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
RE: messydesk.social/@synec/11640358300… Existence of FreeBSD implies the existence of FuckYouPayMeBSD
messydesk.social
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediculus
en.wikipedia.org
Rediculus - Wikipedia
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
RE: toot.yosh.is/@yosh/1163869095338270… soon someone will build a site illustrating what webassembly opcodes are what pokémons
toot.yosh.is
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@sayrer/11637602135… finally we can let robots take over the important job of shitting in the street
mastodon.social
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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
Ah, now we're getting to the *real* problem! And you're not crazy! All text on the internet is indeed converging on the same AI generated format: ✅ a confirming but reassuring statement ⭐️a few bullet points 🧠 a pithy "explanation" / guess You see, even the content _not_ written by AI — like […]
mstdn.social
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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
If you throw an exception from the same place in your program multiple times, JVM will stop giving you stacktraces ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ stackoverflow.com/questions/5869609…
stackoverflow.com
When does JVM start to omit stack traces?
I've searched much on the topic. But no concrete solution/guide is present. From the docs, Some virtual machines may, under some circumstances, omit one or more stack frames from the stack tra...
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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
Before transistors, relays were widely used in telephony switches. They were much slower, but much more reliable than vacuum tubes. This 1951 booklet, "NO. 5 CROSSBAR" from Bell Labs describes the bad-ass mainframe of relays. Lots of photos and diagrams […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
they named it abseil because of the sheer fucking mountain of warnings it shits out every time you compile it
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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
QWERTY keyboard if each key’s width was proportional to its frequency
QWERTY keyboard if each key’s width was proportional to its frequency
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 28/01/2026
...but have you ever used a keyboard with a touchscreen with a keyboard on it?
A Casio keyboard that has a bunch of real keys but the main section is a touchscreen with a keyboard shown on it
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
RE: mstdn.social/@jschauma/115950539156…
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
when you unblock yourself by deleting your async code
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026
if i ever have a website i am gonna put up the opposite of anubis or whatever that makes sure you’re not a human
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
what is the fediverse equivalent of a subtweet
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
practical haskell: you’re not my typescript
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026
i’m not an influencer, i’m in
work truck with “tactical media integration” emblazoned on its port sliding door
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wilhelm @wil.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
Berkeley Slop Distribution
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