bitcoin doesn't fix a broken heart

watching invincible season 2 and i really don't understand why it's seen as so important for mark grayson to go to college. sure, college prepares you for the workforce and gives you a network to find a job through, but that seems totally irrelevant for the strongest superhero on the planet. petulant schoolchildren often pretend they have better things to do than learn about color symbolism in 18th century literature, but invincible actually does. every second he spends studying topics he'll never use could be much better spent at least helping rebuild chicago. it's not like schools are a pivotal part of a child's development in and of themselves, they're just the places we've built for children to develop in. he could totally live a fulfilled childhood without wasting a bunch of time preparing for a career that he's never going to see

the user experience for truly secure end-to-end encryption will never be good enough because it must always get in the way of the user. there is no secure e2ee scheme that solves this and there never will be. this is for a similar reason that the user experience for having a lock on your front door will never be good enough. the user will have to carry around an annoying key everywhere, and will have to learn what a key is and how to use it and where to put it. it will always get between the user and the room they are trying to access. the only way to make the user experience good enough is to replace the keyed lock with something the user can unlock without authenticating, and that will never provide true security besides making the user feel comfortable in their insecurity. i've rotated keys in matrix plenty of times due to broken crypto and nobody has ever verified it was still me https://nostrudel.ninja/articles/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpdlddzcx9hntfgfw28749pwpu8sw6rj39rx6jw43rdq4pd276vhuqys8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn9d9h82mny0fmkzmn6d9njuumsv93k2tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqgrvvpjxvunvdtyvvmrgvpkxanxz2xvneg

i have never heard a fire alarm actually correspond to a dangerous fire. it's always some bullshit like a drill (i know how to follow exit signs i don't need a pop quiz) or burnt food (which shouldn't trigger a full building alarm). at some point we have to realize that alarm fatigue is the strongest force in fire safety today and people just aren't going to evacuate on an alarm if they happen constantly. also my ears hurt, they don't need to be so damn loud for me to know to leave an area

i would like to have a strongly worded conversation with the github engineer that decided that the workflow page needed to override alt + left to move around the workflow graph instead of doing the browser behavior (for firefox, going back a page)

software developers will never be real engineers. you have no real certification, you operate under no ethical frameworks, you have no solidarity. you are a code monkey twisted by javascript frameworks and bash scripts into a crude mockery of electrical engineering's perfection https://following.space/d/u369g8uw2780

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my hope is that people will one day celebrate their likenesses more than they mourn their differences

tbh calling twitter x is a red flag

yes, the most powerful people in the world want me detained and deported, but don't make assumptions about my safety or the country i live in, especially if your political opinions are only common online. that all being said, imagine a world where you can improve somewhat and follow that path. i think it's specifically important to focus on ways you can improve you own life here. while mutual aid is good for the world, you gotta make your own life better. clean your apartment, eat reasonably healthy foods, get regular checkups and buy bitcoin. you can't help the world if you aren't first helping yourself. i know i certainly felt a lot better about the world after i cleaned my own bathroom

hey tech bro stop pretending that bitcoin invented proof of work. your thoughts on nostr are clearly secondhand. you are not obligated to give your opinion, especially if you got it from someone else. hashcash used proof of work for spam prevention in 1997, 11 years before the bitcoin whitepaper. it's not like the concept of hashing a string is somehow fully owned by cryptocurrency

the other day i was talking to my mom about her new car and she was talking about how annoying she found all the new features. when i got in i looked at the dashboard and it had a login prompt with a username and password

if you're writing a component for inputting math equations and you make it so that, when you switch tabs, the cursor resets to the end of the input, i think they should put you in some sort of metal cube and weld it shut for all eternity and then maybe blow it up with nuclear warheads

if you're making a slider in a video game and you make it 1-10 when there is no technical reason for it not to be 1-100 i will break into your house and demonstrate slamming a sledgehamer into your head at 1% up to 100% sensitivity you have to reverse engineer the borderlands 2 settings format in order to make your sensitivity a reasonable value for some reason and i don't really care to hear the explanation from some designer on why they chose to only have 10 values i only want to hear their screams

hot take: sohcahtoa is bad because it normalizes sine before cosine. sine represents the y value of a point on the unit circle while cosine represents the x value. since x is customarily placed before y, we should be taught cahsohtoa instead. i feel very strongly about this

trans immigrants are safer without cops. bastards are acting as deportation agents—and i say this from experience. my fears are not unfounded. why do these fucking idiots get to decide what happens to me? tip: you can always become more courageous consider the outcomes: you don't get punished -> hell yeah :3 you get punished -> hell yeah :3 icarus was right

i am begging everyone to take a moment and think about de-escalation in online environments. do you need to tell that person to fuck off? do you need to make that comparison? is that comment really necessary? or could you simply assume good faith? could you just ignore that post? please, save yourself the trouble and don't intentionally piss people off

nostr is really close to being a viable protocol. i swear it's a good platform to be on if you ignore apps with security vulnerabilities and bots and disinformation and fearmongering and homophobia and idiot billionaires and impostors and misogynist incels and neo-nazi threats and olavo de carvalho's fanboys and racism and religious fanatics and right-wing authoritarianism and transphobia and... okay sure. all the world's problems are because of the "gender ideology," of the money printer go brrr meme and of the "woke" left alright thanks. at least i can watch vtubers on my phone with the new on-train wifi

the userland can be a part of an operating system, but it's not an operating system if it doesn't have any of the other components. chrome isn't an operating system just because it's used as a component of chromeos, just like gnu coreutils isn't an operating system just because it's used as a component of debian View quoted note →

working on a script that measures obs websocket performance. forgot to include the line that closes the connection after im done with a test. in other news i have discovered that obs crashes if you open about 7000 concurrent websocket connections fast enough