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@directhex They came up with so many premises

@directhex damn these are cool

As far as I can tell the whole premise is this horrible little boy engages in various adorable activities and never, ever enjoys himself

So apparently Pop Mart's next big success after Labubu is something called "Hirono Dolls" and I looked it up and… these are actually incredibly cute

The human body is extremely unfair

infinite state machine

@xgranade The last time I got a laptop I wanted a framework, but it was twice as much as the equivalent Lenovo or more… a Framework was aspirational. It was something I was expecting to pay extra for. To have a business, Framework needs to make me think they're not just good but SO good I'll pay extra to get whatever it is they're selling.

Poll: Which of the following pieces of computer software do you feel confident you could write, if you had to do it yourself?

(Assume a reasonable amount of time and access to reasonable educational resources to use for reference while doing the writing. Assume you have access to no form of "generative AI". Assume the scope of which features are supported by the OS or compiler is one of the things you're supposed to be able to decide on yourself to complete the task.)

Poll: Imagine you were suddenly thrust into a situation where you were the only person available to deliver a baby. How screwed are you/the mother/the baby?

(Assume six minutes to prepare, and access to a first aid kit as well as the objects, like bedsheets and cookwear, you'd find in a typical suburban home.)

Poll: If you were abruptly called on to operate a sailboat, do you believe you would be able to do it?

WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, RECAPTCHA

I wonder if you could derive information about the real world weather map by observing the feed of a large feed of casual internet comments like Twitter, Bluesky or Mastodon and checking the geotags of posts where people complain about migraines

Please check this button if you are an entity

"Error: Postal codes cannot contain spaces" Oh you believe that, do you

A thing I do not like is when a computer form has a drop-down menu of every country in the world, and you select it and type "CAN", and it selects Namibia because Namibia begins with N

@listrophy What, exactly, is the relationship between RubyCentral and DHH? If anything? People often talk about them together, and I can see how DHH fits into the spat between RubyCentral and the community, but I do not find any actual formal relationship between the two.

RubyCentral do seem to have, in their coup, successfully claimed the "instutitions" of Ruby in the sense of domain names and github repos. But the community, and (a lot?) (most of?) the authors of the source in those github repos do not seem to be on board:

https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-community/

So this seems like a really key test case, whether open source is made of living communities or just an opaque content pipeline for corporate actors to plug their build systems into

So, after the seeming hostile takeover of RubyGems, I this week saw this announcement:

https://gem.coop/

Of a reboot of RubyGems by its own former maintainers, governance structure to be announced tomorrow. Can people who are plugged into the Ruby community give me a sense of how significant an event this is? Does it have a chance to displace RubyCentral?

"Unlock your bootloader" (euphemism)